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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



PREFACE. 



HARRY WEIH.NER. 




jC production of Daytonia, spectacular 

in scenery and histories] in portrayal, 

given by the Ladies and Gentlemen of 

Dayton, aims to serve two commendable 
purposes. 

First, as a continued commemoration of 
Dayton's Centennial Anniversary, which was 
begun with an ardor and appropriateness com- 
mensurate with the importance of the gala event. 

Daytonians hold in profound reverence the mem- 
ories of their forefathers, who risked their lives and 
their fortunes in subduing the unbroken forest and 
its savage denizens, and in laying strong, wide, and 
deep the foundations of a city which to-day con- 
tains as many elements of advancement, and is 
endowed with as many of the attributes of genuine 
happiness, as any city in the United States. 

There is a just cause for congratulation in the 
growth and development of Dayton. Its magnifi- 
cence is a crowning monument to the enlighten- 
ment and progressiveness of its citizens — a devout, 
law-abiding, and upright people, whose stalwart 
and robust Americanism constitutes their chief 
excellence. It is no such Americanism as turns 
up its pantaloons every time it rains in Loudon, 
or affects a pronunciation of our glorious tongue 
unknown to lexicons, but presumed to lie an echo 
of the British Isles. Far from it. Dayton proudly 
boasts of an exalted citizenship, imbued with the 
spirit of an undying loyalty to country, whose 
pride and inspiration are not in Frederick the 
Great, or Louis XIV., or William the Conqueror: 
not in a hero of England, or of Germany, or of 
France, or of Ireland, but in George Washington 
and Abraham Lincoln. 

Dayton, too, is happily situated, nestling in the 
lap of a teeming valley. It appears like a beau- 
tiful solitaire in the golden luxuriance of its pic- 
turesque environments, presenting a spectacle of 
surpassing beauty, calm as the vale of Avoca, fair 
as the famous „Esopus, and peaceful as the valley 
of Tempe. The gentle Miami, in its sinuous flow, 
laves the city's feet, as it wends its downward way. 
Though it bears not on its placid bosom the com- 
merce of a great people, yet, in its tranquillity, it 
is dearer to us than the blue Danube, with all its 
poetry, or the Rhine, with all its legends. Verily, 
where is a spot approaching nearer the fabled 
garden of the llesperides, with all its imagined 

splendors, than the Gem City of the Miami Valley, 

where Venus herself might enjoy the charms ami 
loveliness of her daughters? 



Aside from its commemorative feature, the pro- 
duction of Daytonia is for the benefit of the St. 
Elizabeth and Deaconess Hospitals. Both institu- 
tions are an enduring I i to our magnificent, 

thrifty, and far-famed (.cm City, to which she can 
point with the same pride which Cornelia mani- 
fested in her children. And who can speak in 

amply panegyrical terms of that noble band of 
nurses, the sweet sisters and good deaconesses, 

the comforting and ministering angels of the sick- 
room, where the opportunities for their usefulness 
are as illimitable as the complex ills which flesh 
is heir to? Their heroic services and indescrib- 
able sacrifices are worthy of the highest enco- 
miums. To the friendless sufferers, with no kindly 
voice to whisper comfort in their sorrows ; no hand 
to soften the asperities with which this world's 
conflict will harden the downiest pillow; no 
kindred heart in whose sympathetic throbbinga 
they can read the alphabet of love, how blest 
their voices, that, like genial showers poured on the 
desert, gladden as they How, and cheer the sinking 
heart; how matchless their fidelity, inviolable as 
the covenant of the Most High, their purity un- 
sullied as the light of heaven! 

In conclusion, the Executive Committee, through 
the Souvenir Committee, desires to express its 
deepest gratitude : 

First, to Director-General Harry E. Feicht, 
whose unflagging zeal and unselfish devotion have 
done so much to further this laudable enterprise. 
His intense interest in its successful culmination 
touched the extremest limit of exultant enthusi- 
asm, constantly inspiring others to renewed en- 
deavor. 

Second, to the Press, so kindly, generous, and 
patriotic in its spirit and so powerful in its com- 
manding influence, which has made possible the 

success of Daytonia. 

Third, to the performers, including all partic- 
ipants in this production, for their painstaking 
efforts; the beneficent merchants and manufactur- 
ers for their spontaneity and liberality both as 
regards donations and advertisements, and the 
purchasers of tickets for their manifest interest 
and loyal support. Few cities in the world can 

boast of a populace so charitably and public-spirit- 

edly inclined. 

Lastly, to all, rich and poor alike, who con- 
tributed in i he minutest degree to the sue. ess 
of this noble undertaking, either artistically or 
financially. 



SOUVENIR COMMITTEE. 



Mr. A.lpred A. Thresher. 



Mrs. J. B. Thresher. 



Mb. Harry Weidxer. Mrs. C. E. Corps. 

Mr, B. 1". Bubehabdt. Mrs. C. J. Fernsdino, 

Mr. B. F. Hargrave. Mrs. 1'. .1. Rottbbmann. 

Miss ReBEKAB StRICKBE. 



Copyright, 1896. 

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The Dayton Instantaneous 
Water Heater. 

Suitable for Bathrooms and 
Domestic Purposes. 

Sold by all Plumbers. ■ 

Manufacture ,,„ DAYTON SUPPLY CO., 



roil <* <* 



DAYTON. OHIO. 



E.jSIMM & SONS, 



313& 315 ]•:. First Street, Dayton, 0. 

TELEPHONE 271. 



Also Office 

THE BIMM DAYTON ICE CO. 



Jtmbrose Sitter, 

MERCHANT TAILOR, 



22 East Third Street, 

Dayton, Ohio.. 



Takes the form of Centennial Bargains in DRY 

GOODS of Superior quality at popular prices. 

We advertise tlu-iu regularly. Are yon watch- 
ing our announcements? It pays others. It 
will pay you. 

Hunter & Hardie, 

NEW YORK STORE. 



CHAS. L. KOEHNEN, 



<&mG 



rocer, 



Cor. Third ami St. Mary's Streets, 

DEALER IN ... . 

High Grade Groceries, Fruits, and Vegetables. 

HIGH GRADE COFFEES A SPECIALTY. 



Buy your= 



Ask y° ur Grocer for 

BAUHAN'S 

Crackers — Bread. 

They ivill suit you. 



Furniture, Carpets, Etc., 



of 



Cbc fl. fi. Grim Co., 



122 & 124 East Fifth Street. 



CASH OR CREDIT. 



Alex. Gkbhaet. 



EUGEM WtMCHKT. 



FjtAMK WuiCHET. 



Alex. Gebhart fr Co., 
jCumber ^Dealers, 

WAYNE AVENUE AND RAILROAD, 

_2)ayton, Ohio. 



Ll'thik PiTitRi, F.A.I. A. 



K. Buhn-s. F.A.I. A. 



Alsebt Ptii/iNi-m 



peters, Burr/s 8 pretzir^er, 



ARCHITECTS, 



26-31 Kuhns Building, Dayton, Ohio. 



SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 




DIRECTOR-GENERAL HARRY E. FEICHT. 




ARRY ELLSWORTH FEICHT, 
whose likeness appears above, the 
originator of Daytonia, a produc- 
tion given under his personal direction, 
(is a Day tonian by birth and education. 
He is a shining specimen of assiduity 
and perseverance — eager to do, tire- 
less in energy, persistent in purpose. By 
his philanthropic and patriotic services — 
for he is continually promoting some praise- 
worthy work of public benefaction — he has 
won the immeasurable admiration and 
abiding attachment of all true Daytonians. 
Harry, as he is familiarly called, is a 
superb leader, of vigorous intellect, of 
fertility of resource, and of freshness and 
originality of genius. He is the very in- 
carnation of honor and probity. Beneath 
his sunny, ardent, and magnanimous na- 
ture there lie a potency of will that knows 



no impediment and powers of intellectual 
labor that defy fatigue. 

It was he who originated the Charity 
Circus, so unique in conception. The 
project was prodigious, and its success pro- 
portionate with its immensity. The goodly 
proceeds replenished, in a measure, the 
depleted coffers of the St. Elizabeth and 
Deaconess Hospitals. No more need be 
said in praise of its projector, though the 
grandest and most glittering gems of eulogy 
should be set, diadem-like, on the forefront 
of Mattering language. 

Mr. Feicht adds luster to everything he 
touches, as the sprightly edition of the 
Dayton Daily Globe, bearing date of April 1, 
1946, glowingly attests. He also inaugu- 
rated the Noise Committee that brought out 
thirty thousand people at midnight on 
March 31 to usher in our Centennial year. 



ELDER & JOHNSTON, 

Dry Goods, 



Nos. 24 and 26 East Third Street, 



DAYTON, OHIO, 



BLACK GOODS SECTION. No woman's wardrobe is complete 

: 7T=r. — - — = = without at least one black dress. 

What a handsome, satisfactory lot of newest weaves we're showing, too! 
Blistery, bulging Crepons ; Plain and Figured Brilliantines; rich, eccentric 
Brocade effects on a Satin Ground, ami at prices to pleasantly surprise you. 



JACKETS OR CAPES? It matters not which — they 're here ; racks 

= full of them ; just what you 're looking for. 
We're getting busier every day ; come in and get the reason for it ; you '11 

find it taeked on t" every garment in the stork. 



STORE NOTES. 



Seen those new Dresden Ribbons? 

Very busy in Kid Gloves just now. 

It 's a pleasure to buy Muslin Underwear as we sell it. 

Would like your opinion on those new Silk Waists. 



Elder & Johnston, 

•ayton Agents for the genuine 

CENTEMER1 KID GLOVES. 




Empress Josephine 

Dental Cream. 




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Aromatic, 

Deodorant, 

Antiseptic, 
Refreshing, 

Preserving, 

Cleansing. 



For Sale by all Druggists. ^8 



SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



ODE TO DAYTON. 



MRS. J. B. THRESHER. 




LL hail, thou gem in fairest setting 

Of golden fields and emerald liills. 
With fringe of woods thy borders fretting, 
Ami gleam of silver on thy rills! 

All loyalty to thee forever, 
Loved city of our hearts and homes; 

Thy children will forget thee never, 
No matter where the wanderer roams. 

All down the years a light is falling, 

The dauntless spirit of the past, 
And future days to us are calling 
To keep their hope and promise fast. 

For men have ventured, hoped, and striven, 

To build the Dayton of to-day; 
A legacy to us have given 

Of effort on a toilsome way. 

Oh, may we have by 1 leaven's blessing 
Health, knowledge, cleanliness, and peace, 

With love to all our hearts possessing, 
While arts and industries increase. 

shine on, then, with increasing glory. 
Fair gem, shine on the ages through, 

And to those ages tell the story 
Of honest sons and daughters true. 




From "Early Dayum," by permia«ioa of llio U. H. PubHihlog House. 



Stylish ^Dressers 

Should wear the best. You can get it only in the 
** STEIN BLOCK MAKE AT.*j» 

Finest FOOTWEAR in the City. 




CLOTHES AND SHOES. 



JOHN STENGEL & CO., 



MANl'I ACTl'RERS OF 



FURNITURE. 



OFFICE AND FACTORY, 320 and 339 TAYLOR STREET, DAYTON, OHIO. 



Attention, Daytonians ! 



Do not forget the acknowledged fact that 



R. W. Koellsch 



Sells the Very Best Grades 
of HARD and SOFT 



COAL. 



635 EAST THIRD STREET. 



TELEPHONE 972. 



QIELE & PFLAUM, 



U East Second Street, 



Sprinters. 



Prompt Service. 



Telephone 1TO. 



Cbe monarch Cutter 




T$ revolutionizing the quick, accurate pitting of 
all paper materials in large quantities. 



THE SEYBOLD MACHINE CO., 

Makers of Machinery for Bookbinders, Printers, Lithog- 
raphers, Paper Mills, Etc. 

CHARLES SEYBOLD, Preh. L. W. (iUNCKEL, Treas. 

B. B. THRESHER, Sec'y. 

DAYTON, OHIO, 74 Louie St. 

NEW YORK CITY, CHICAGO, ILL, ST. LOUIS, MO., 
44 Centre St. 371-373 Dearborn St. 406 N. Third St. 

L0N00N, E. C, ENGLAND, 
No. 2 White Horse Alley, Cowcross St. 



SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 




Main Street Hoie Hon-.' Miami River. 

Prom "Early Dayton." bj permission of the V. B. Publishing House 



N'ewcom'a Tavern. Landing Placi 

HE LANDING-PLACE AND NEWOOM'S TAVERN IN 1896. 



The breaking waves did not dash high 
when the little band of pilgrims moored 
their bark on the banks of the Miami, but 
in the sunshiny days of early spring on 
that 1st day of April, one hundred years 



ago, the flowers and the foliage of the trees 
were just beginning to unfold, and light 
snows lay amid the grass, fresh with the 
greenness of spring. The Miami in 1706 
wound through an uninhabited wilderness. 



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recommend 



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lOW U -LVJLi£\,0 at ha]f the price ,,f ,, t i„. r brands. 



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Must be pure to be healthful. 


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^ODA >VATER, made of pure water and Carbonic Acid 


Gas is healthful ; Ginger Ale, doubly so. Nothing is more 


refreshing on a sweltering hot day. 




We manufacture all kinds of Mineral or Soda Waters on 




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scientific principles. 


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DISTILLED WATER is the first principle— and there 
are others too numerous to mention here. 


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Pamphlet mailed free on request. 


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Must be pure to be healthful. 



SMOKE 



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DAYTONIA 



for a Nickel, 



AND 



Teutonia Bouquet 



for a io-cent 
Cigar. 




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AYTONIA'S filler is raised only in the Miami 
Valley, and years of experience have taught us to 
combine the different grades of tobaccos to make 
such a quality, equal to the imported Havana 
tobacco. The wrapper is imported from the 
island of Sumatra. Give the Daytonia a trial, 
and you will be surprised what tobacco the 
Miami Valley produces. 



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EUTONIA BOUQUET is our high grade Seed 
and Havana Cigar. This brand has been before 
the Dayton public for the last two years, and 
whoever has smoked them will agree with us 
that it is the best io-cent cigar in the market. 



fit 



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H. C. MAHRTCO. 



SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



ABORIGINAL DAYTONIANS. 



. ,5] ^JlJRING the earlier part of the 
T?OT eighteenth century southwestern 
.V U Ohio was inhabited by the Miamis. 
Their permanent villages were located 
along two main trails, one considerably 
west of the Great Miami, the other follow- 
ing the Little Miami. The intermediate 
region, the valley of the Great Miami, 
was used only as a hunting-ground. The 
Shawnees, who had emigrated from Flor- 
ida and Georgia, had settlements on the 
lower Scioto. Becoming restless, they 
pushed northward, and in 1740 spread 
over the area between Springfield and 
Piqua, formerly occupied by the Miamis. 
During the French and Indian wars the 
Miamis sided with the French and the 
Shawnees with the English. After the 
defeat of the French, in 17G3, the Miamis 
retreated to Fort Wayne, leaving their ter- 
ritory to the Shawnees. 

During the Revolutionary War the Shaw- 
nees continued to side with the English, 
and harassed the settlements in Kentucky 
until defeated by expeditions from that 
State in 17S6. It was not, however, until 
Wayne's victory in 1794 that the Shawnees 
were rendered harmless, and the country 
was open to settlement. Although the 
Indians never occupied permanent villages 
near Dayton, the junction of the Mad and 



AUGUST F. FOERSTE. 



Miami rivers was a favorite camping-ground 
for their war parties, and burial graves are 
not uncommon east of Steele's dam. Here 
the squaws left in charge of the camp may 
have occasionally raised their favorite corn, 
beans, pumpkins, and tobacco. 

If the mound-builders were distinct from 
the Indians, they had a euriously similar 
history. One tribe inhabited the Miami 
region, and built irregular forts. The 
nearest of these, including half of Calvary 
Cemetery, crowns the bluffs, and overlooks 
the river one hundred and sixty feet below. 
From this point could be seen the smoke 
arising from the great Miamisburg mound, 
seventy feet high, used as a signal station. 
A second tribe of mound-builders inhabited 
the Scioto Valley. They were more civil- 
ized, and built geometrical earthworks of 
large proportions in the valleys. They 
seem at one time to have invaded the 
valley of the Great Miami, and begun 
one of their great earthworks five miles 
south of Dayton, north of Alexandersville. 
Several circles can still be traced, and a 
large square was nearly completed, but a 
portion, now in the woods, was not even 
begun. The Scioto tribe were probably 
driven out before they could complete 
their great earthwork, but it is still a 
monument to their engineering ability. 






W. P. CALLAHAN. THOS. De ARMON. W. K. CALLAHAN. 

W. P. CALLAHAN & CO, 

FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS. 



MANIFACTI'REES OF 



Ice and Refrigerating Machinery, 

Hydraulic Oil Machinery, Steam Engines, and Cotton Compresses. 

DAYTON, OHIO. 

** Paper Dimming Yfim \ ++ 





Planing machine Knives. * * * « 
Uarious Kinds of Pattern Knives. * « 
Engine Bars and Plates for Paper mills. 




ft. ft. Simonds $ $on t Dayton, 0, 



Do You Wish the Best Results? 



THRESHER'S oS VARNISHES 



AND GENUINE T • j >~v • 1 

KETTLE-BOILED J-zlllSeeQ Vjll 



Thresher&Co., Varnish Makers, Da yton,0. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 




Prom " r uriv Da>lon," by permission >>i the U. It. PubUnhlog Ho 



COLONEL ROBERT PATTERSON 



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Was born in 1753 in Bedford County, Pa. 
In 1786 Patrick Henry, Governor of Vir- 
ginia, commissioned Robert Patterson a 
colonel in the "State Line." In 1786 his regi- 
ment of Colonel Logan's division marched to 
destroy the Indian towns on Mad River. 
But for these battles and victories over the 
Indians in which Colonel Patterson was for 



many years engaged, the Dayton settle- 
ment would have been an impossibility. 
His part in the history of our city is of the 
greatest importance, for he helped win its 
site from the Indians, and secured a peace- 
ful and prosperous home for the pioneers. 
All his later years he was a sufferer from 
wounds ree°ived in his campaigns. 



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OUUl^JLHO brands at double the price. 

CANBY, ACH & CANBY, 

Importers, Roasters, and Sole Proprietors of 

VIENNA JAVA COFFEE 

Absolutely the Bksi Coffee to be had at 30 Cents Per Pound. 

SOLD AT THIS PRICE BY ALL GROCERS. 



221 S. Front St., PHILADELPHIA. 



.510 and 512 E. Third St., DAYTON, 0. 

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1402 Main St., KANSAS CITY, MO. 



DIERS & TANNER, 

Fine Shoes, 



104 South Main Street, 

DAYTON, OHIO. 



Davies Building. 



E. R. L/\TIIN, 

Uhe Matter and furnisher, 

142 South Main Street, 
davton, Ohio. Corner Fifth Street. 

Centennial Blend 

is the best Coffee ever solil at 22 cents; 

Pioneer Blend 

is a good one at 25 cents. 

Thomson's cash grocery. 

DEWEESE & BIDLEMAN, 

Carpets, j* Curtains, ** Mattings, 

DRESS GOODS, ETC. 

8 East Third Street. 



After you see DAYT0N1A then 
go and see 

SMITH BROS. 6 GO., 



IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 



FINE CHMM ^2 QUHSSW/rlllE. 

The only exclusive house in this line in the city. 

28 North Main Street. Telephone 849 



Gem City Cigar Co., 

Joseph J. Buchee, Prop. 

406 South Wayne Ave. 



Spring Styles. 




TAILORS. 



Don't forget to visit 

The Boston 99c. Store 

for Novelties of all Kinds. 

110 East Third Street, DAYTON, OHIO. 

LEE WOLF & BRO., 

•Jd POORS, W* 

Stationery. 

Telephone 440. 

BURKHARDT & ROTTERMANN, 

Druggists and Apothecaries, 

N. W. Cor. Third and St. Clair Sts., 



California Cough Balsam. 

B. & R. FlavorirjR Extracts. 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



Oswald Cammann, 

•XL General Insurance Agent. 

Special attention given to placing tire insur- 
ance at the lowest possible rates in the best 
companies. 






H. E. EMRICXS, 
HARDWARE — 



****** 



15 South Main Street. 



DUBOIS & SOWARD'S 
^ City Music Store. 




ESTABLISHED 1 B50. 



Pianos and all kinds of Musical 
Instruments, Strings, Sheet Music 
and Books. 
21 South Main St. 0pp. Market House. 



J. SCHWAB & SON, 

7 South Main Street. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



A LEAF FROM AN OLD BOOK." 



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JUT of the past there comes to us a 
I quaint little book, yellow with 
JtaarS* age, and of interest to us in our 
'- Centennial year. It is "The Harp 
of the West," a volume of poems by 
Joseph S. Welsh, Cincinnati, printed 
by Dawson and Fisher, 1839. The 
author does not "arrogate to himself the 
genius of Milton, of Homer, or of Pope." 
"His highest ambition is to plant in the 
bosoms of the rising generation the great, 
the good and ennobling principles of mo- 
rality, virtue, and patriotism." The rising 
generation may thank Mr. Welsh for his 
thoughtful care, and for his giving to us in 
this far-away day a picture of our fair city 
in its earliest days. 

One of the most interesting poems is 
" Recollections of Colonel Robert Patterson, 
Late of Dayton, Ohio." After giving many 
incidents in the life of Colonel Patterson, 
the poem closes with the following pen 
picture of early Dayton : 

"Brave Patterson sought out :x beauteous home; 
Ami, lo! around, the wilderness < 1 i« 1 bloom 



And blossom as the rose. 

.War by him rose, Erom out the lonely waste, 

A little village. I remember well 

When heavy forests frowned along the streets 

of Dayton. Ami 1 've often there beheld 
The wild deer feeding 'neatb the shady groves 
Where now the buildings stand, and heard at 

night 
The yell of the rapacious prowling wolf. 
Of families some live or six dwelt round. 
In little cabins; peace and friendship reigned 
Uninterrupted 'mid the social group 
Of active citizens. The blockhouse frowned 
In murky grandeur o'er the river's brink 
Just where the mouth of the main street doth 

meet 
The water's edge. When night did shroud 
This lonely hamlet, oft the dismal tale 
Of savage cruelty would make the urchins 

crouch 
To a close circle, round the blazing fire, 
And while the blast moaned round the chim- 
ney-tops, 
Think that they heard the foe advancing close 
Upon their dwellings. Time can ne'er erase 
Those first impressions and those early scenes 
From off my memory — never can I plot out 
The traces of the friendship warm ami sweet 
That dwelt amid this little village band." 



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15 cent VANILLA 



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Draught ™ d Export Lager Beers, 



UNEXCELLED AS A TONIC OK TABLE BEER. 



^ |- ^f\^ Barrels of Beer sold during the year ending 
CJjCUO May i, 1896, 



About 23,000 of which were sold in the city. 



IN ORDER TO HAVE A GOOD, WHOLESOME BEER IT MUST HAVE A.GE. 

I f- O ^ C Barrels of Beer on hand May 1, 1896, more 
I OaO / w than any other two Brewers in the city. 



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n 1 \Tf\/"fc\l/ " THE STR0NGEST MAN IN THE WORLD, on his recent visit to Dayton, 
^/\1 N LI\J W • drank Schauta's Beer ami pronounced it tlie finest ever found in all his travels, 



covering almost the entire glohe. 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 




From " Early imvinn," by permii.sioD of Hie U. B. Publishing House. 

NORTHWEST CORNER OF MAIN AND FOURTH STREETS IN 1882. 

PRESENT SITE OF THE KUIINS BUILDING, THE COENEE BUILDING, EEECTED IN 1813, BEING THE OLDEST HOUSE SOUTH OF 

THIRD STBEET. 



"General Harrison spent the 1st of 
September, 1812, in Dayton, and a salute of 
eighteen guns was fired in his honor. . . . 
The following appeal was sent to the ladies 
of Dayton from headquarters, St. Mary's, 
September 20, 1812: 'General Harrison 
presents his compliments to the ladies of 
Dayton and its vicinity, and solicits their 
assistance in making shirts for their brave 
defenders who compose his army.' .... 
'With a zeal and promptitude honor- 
able to them and the State,' and, of 
course, without compensation, the ladies 
of Dayton immediately went to work, and 



by October 14 one thousand eight hundred 
shirts were ready to send to the army — a 
good deal of sewing to accomplish without 
the aid of a machine in less than four weeks 
by the women of a village of less than one 
hundred houses." 

"On the 19th of May, 1813, the last num- 
ber of the Ohio Centinel appeared, and for 
a year and five months no newspaper was 
published in Dayton. As a consequence, 
there is little material during this period 
for the history of the town." — From "Early 
Dayton," published by the U. B. Publishing 
House. 



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to cakes an<l pastry use 



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MANUFACTURED FROM 

DISTILLED WATER. 



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TELEPHONE No. 800. 
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TRUE BLUE TAR SOAP McMahon s McMahon, 



The Best Soap made for the 
Hair, Scalp, and Skin. Ab- 
solutely Pure. Give it atrial. 

The Pioneer Tar Soap Co. 

DAYTON, OHIO, U. S. A. 



S. H. Carr. 



W. C. Kennedy. 
Telephone 550. 



D. W. Allaman 



Carr, Allaman & Kennedy, 
Attorneys and Counselors at Law 



DAYTON, OHIO. 
Odd Fellows Temple. 



PFOUTZ & HARTRANFT, 
Attorneys at Law. 

Rooms 2 and 3, Davies Block, 
Cor. Fourth and Main. 



44 Interest" if t ™ De p° sits 

I^iami Loan & 
Building Association. 

C. J. McKEE, Secretary and Attorney. 

6 Davies Building. 



Attorneys and 
Counselors at Law 

ROOMS 8, 9, & 10, FIREMEN'S INSURANCE BUILDING. 



John A. McMahon. 
J. Sprigg McMahon. 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



O. M. Gottschall. O. B. Brown 

Ira Crawford, Jr. 



Gottschall, Brown & Crawford, 
Attorneys at Law. 

Telephone 497. 

Odd Fellows Temple. DAYTON, OHIO. 



JOHN 31. SPRIG G, 



Attorney at Law. 



Office over Winters National Bank, 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



BENJ. F. HERSHEY, 

Attorney at Law. 

14 North Main Street, Opposite Court Mouse, 
Telephone 3 44- DAYTON, OHIO. 



"The Kin (j of All." 



A-ONE PANETELLAS. 



Try them. 



Ash your dealer for them. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



DAYTON OF THE FAST. 



HARRIET M. KING. 




"T is by contrast very often that we 
see the events of life in their most 
vivid light. It is the fashion now- 
adays to muse much over the fore- 
fathers who laid the foundation of 
our town, and we smile with quiet 
satisfaction as we fancy their grave 
eyes wandering over the modern city which 
we and time have evolved from their bit 
of a hamlet. 

There is but little, after a hundred years, 
of material, tangible shape to show for 
those first, earliest days, — a log cabin by 
the riverside, a few old guns, pictures, 
bits of china, or furniture, — but the influ- 
ence, the will, the character of the little 
group that slept under the trees here in the 
sweet spring weather a hundred years ago 
are closely woven into the Dayton of to-day. 
It is pleasant to stop in our whirling life 
and recall their quiet, earnest personality, 
their independence and kindliness. What 
were their thoughts as they made paths 
through the woods, plowed their lands, 
built their simple homes, and laid out 
some of the streets on which we walk, — 
keeping always an eye open for redskins? 
Did they talk of the history which some 
of them had helped to make with the old 
gun in the corner, now loaded for wild 
beasts or treacherous Indians? What did 



they think of "The Terror" in France? 
What of Napoleon, who, while their 
pirogues were winding down the river, 
and their wagons pushing through the 
forests of Ohio, was leading his army into 
Italy, and so on towards the empire? Did 
their hearts burn over Poland's wrongs, so 
that they were more than half glad when a 
passing traveler brought word that great 
Catherine lay dead in Russia? Did they 
ever give the tribute of a homesick sigh to 
the comfort and security of the old English 
homes of their fathers? Men and women 
both had plenty of time to think, as they 
did their work in the quiet wilderness. 
Thoughts were turned over and over and 
well polished in those days. They were 
not a marketable commodity. There was 
no mania to rush them into print, or 
embalm them in ink. 

A few adventurous spirits, accepting 
cheerfully and bravely for themselves the 
hard conditions of the life they had chosen, 
they built their brightest hopes upon the 
sons and daughters to whom they could 
leave the heritage of freedom in a pleasant 
land. And now they are sleeping — the 
" men whose lives glided on like rivers 
that water the woodlands, darkened by 
shadows of earth, but reflecting an image 
of heaven." 




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DAYTON WHEEL Y^ORKSj^^^ 



Mauufacturt-r- i il 



«* FINE 



VEHICLE WHEELS, 



N. Thomas, 




BOTTLING 
WORKS. 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



§8^— 



George Schantz, Pres. 
Louis A, Wehner, Sec'y- 



Cftc • • • 



Schantz $ Sclwind 
Brewing Co., 




Dayton, Ohio, 

Brewers and 
Bottlers, 



telephone 176. 



t£& t£r* &r* b^* C*^* <*^" t^* 



foot of Perry Street. 



Cor. FM ond Bectel Sis. * 



Established 1859. 



R. P. BURKHARDT, PHES. 

G. STOMPS, VlCE-PRES. AND TflEAS. 

J. M. KRAMER, SECY. 

R. P. BURKHARDT, JR., Supt 



THE STOMPS- 

BURKHARDT 

CO., 



Manufacturers of all 
Styles of 



Chairs. 



Office and Factory: 

229 to '-Ml East First Street. 



Wabebooms: 

126, 128, & 130 Canal Street. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 




Callahan Bank Buildiug. 
' Karlj Davtuu," b) ptrujiasiuo of the 0. B. Publishing House. 

THIRD STREET, LOOKING EAST FROM MAIN. 



" Perhaps," in the language of Mary 
Davies Steele, " there is no impropriety in 
saying ... of Dayton that no one living 
here who has undertaken literary, philan- 
thropic, or other public work can help feel- 
ing that Dayton is a good place to live in, 
so ready is the response and generous the 
support and appreciation received. Thus, 
it seems to the student of our history, it 
has been from the beginning." 



"Within the last few years a complete 
sewer system has been projected and largely 
finished, and the principal streets of the 
city have been handsomely paved with 
asphalt, brick, sandstone, and granite ; and 
many of the residence streets have been 
parked by narrowing the roadway and 
making lawns along the borders of the side- 
walks. These improvements . . . make 
the streets very attractive." 



We 
recommend 



Q/'^TT"^\"^7 , "DQ , 10-Cent Lemon and 15-Cent Vanilla Extracts because they are line, rich flavors, 
OW U UIUIXiD at i ia i,- t i, e price of-other brands. 

Pierce & Coleman Co., j^T 

^s& LUMBER AND HILL WORK. 



122=132 Wayne Avenue, 

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DAYTON, OHIO. 



tfJTEJT, ENQEL if conr^NT, 



Ns. D. Bates. C. W. Engel. 

Harry J. Rock. G. A. Heinz. 



DRESS GOODS, SILKS, 



«£ 



LADIES* «"d yy\EIN»S FURNISHERS, 



" Largest Line of I'opular-l'rice Press Stud's in this City." 
Ladies' Ready Suits. Shirt Waists, and Dress Skirts cm Third Floor. 



106 E. Third and 10 & 12 S. Jefferson, 

DAYTON, OHIO. 



PHILIP J. ROTTERMAN, 

fflerfljant Jailor, 



No. 109 South Jefferson Street, 

DAYTON, OHIO. 



TURKISH and 
j»jtj«RTJSSIAN 



BATH HOUSE, 



<sHsHs*© 



/ 7 Saat Second Street, 

Between Main and Second Streets. 

Finest Equipped Bath House in the Western 
Country. Modern in Every Detail .jtjtjtjltjlt 

OPEN DA Y AND NIGHT. 



Helen Kemper & Sister, 



Dealers in 



F/WCY QOOfeX 



And all kinds of Working Materials, Laces, 
and Children's Caps. ■.'.•.*. 



H3 Nortn Main St., del. First and second sis. 



flnderton $ Cberbardt, 

The "McCune" oi ANS 



D. F. Thompson, Mgr. 



LADIES HOURS : 

Mondays from 7 A.M. to 6 p.m. 
Fridays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. 




District 

messenger 

Service. 



Our messengers can be had 
at any hour, DA Yor NWI1T, 
for all classes of errand 
duty. 



THE MYTH DISTRICT TELEGRAPH it, 



18 S. JEFFERSON ST. 



PHONE 181 




GRACEFUL FRAME, 
GREATEST STRENGTH, 



LOWEST PRICE. 

the flnderton $ eberbardt Co., 



General Agents, 

(8 NORTH MAIN STREET. 







AND 



COAL 

COKE. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



DAYTON OF THE PRESENT. 



s. \V. DAVIES. 




AYTON people have good cause to 
be proud of Dayton. The large 
outlay of the past few years has 
metamorphosed the city. We have 
broad, clean, well -lighted streets; 
excellent fire protection; abundance 
of the purest and coldest water ; school 
buildings handsome in construction, admi- 
rably ventilated, heated, and lighted, with 
unused space for the coming scholars; a 
sewage system that has proved a success; 
more owners of homes than nine out of ten 
cities, and a steady-going, level-headed, 
progressive population. We have enough 
banking capital to help out our neighbors, 
and a large and growing building-associa- 
tion capital that has done more to build up 
the city with comfortable homes than any 
other factor. 

In the gloom of the business depression 
we did not suffer above measure ; we are 
not boomers and had built few air-castles. 
Solidity and steadiness are the character- 
istics of the leaders in manufacturing and 
merchandising. Primarily a manufacturing 
city, our name has gone out throughout the 



earth, and our products to the ends of the 
world. 

We feed on the fat of the land. Fruits 
and vegetables, fresh from the adjacent 
country, fill our markets. You cannot buy 
better beef or mutton, pork or poultry, than 
are spread before the epicure triweekly. 

Are you a reader? The riches of all 
ages are within the handsome library walls, 
free for the asking. Are you a social ani- 
mal? Clubs, artistic, literary, religious, 
and non-religious, open wide their doors to 
men and women alike. Do you want to 
wear a uniform that would make a red 
Indian envious? Uniformed societies are 
endless. 

The Dayton of to-day is beautiful, rich, 
powerful, and prosperous. We invite the 
stranger and sojourner to cast in his lot 
with us. We will help him if he is good, 
furnish a free bed in a splendid hospital if 
he is sick, put him in the new station- 
house if bad, and if he dies we will bury 
him in the most beautiful cemetery in the 
country. What reasonable man, alive or 
dead, could ask more ? 




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TAKE A REST 



™ Solid Comfort Lawn Swing, 

The most comfortable lounging place 
for the hot days and nights. £•<£•£•<£• 

Rakes, Tedders, Loaders, Mowers, Corn Planters, 
Disc Harrows, Grain Drills, and Seeders, a*^^^^ 

jt^>^> Ever}' one the best of its class. 
Our guaranty means something <£•<£• 

Bi^\/^l^o9 Yes, for 1897. 
lOywItyO 1 Don't buy till you see oiirs. 

STODDARD MFG. CO., DAYTON, OHIO. 



THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., 




DAYTON, OHIO. 



One of Dayton's 
Latest Enterprises. 




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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 




From " Karl; Dayton," by permission ol the D. B. Publishing House. 



PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, AND COOPER PARK. 



Robert W. Steele was one of the found- 
ers of the Dayton Library Association, and 
served for many years as director and pres- 
ident. After it was united with the Public 
Library in 1860, he was, excepting one or 
two years, till his death in 1891, a member 



of the Library Board. This Library united 
the strongest attachments of Mr. Steele — 
he loved his native town, and he loved his 
books. The Library contains 35,325 vol- 
umes and 1,292 pamphlets. Connected 
with the Library is a museum. 



Tine Bakery Goods, 



It is a fact Q f\ TT T") "p 1 "R Q ' 10-Cent Lemon and 15-Cent Vanilla Extracts are tine, rich flavors at low 

Geo , F. Krug, 

Fancy Groceries. 

28 and 30 S. Main St. Dayton, Ohio. 



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A TRAP'S THE THING!" 



WE MAKE EliiRT VARIETIES OF 



T R A F» S, 



SURREYS, PHAETONS, AND CABRIOLETS, 



WE DO SELL AT RETAIL. 



MORRIS WOODHULL, 

FIFTH STREET, NEAR RIVER. 



The Brownell & Co., 



Dayton, Ohio, 



MANUFACTURERS "K 



c 






Saw Mills, Boilers of Every Description. 

STAND PIPES, TANKS, 

and General Sheet-Iron Work. 

Send for Catalogue. 




the Joyce-Cridland Co,, 



manufacturers of 



Patent Cever, eompound=Eever, Screw, and 
Hydraulic lacks and Bench Ui$e$< 



factory and Office, Cor. Wyandotte $t. and R. R. 

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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



DAYTON OF THE FUTURE. 



FRANK CONOVER. 



rayE have heard and read much in this 
mM Centennial year of the glories of 
'^sfe5 Dayton's past; and we have con- 
gratulated our city and ourselves 
upon the greatness of her present. But of 
her future, who shall prophesy ? It needs 
large faith and a facile pen to forecast the 
coming years. 

The physical, material advancement of 
Dayton is very sure; her twenty years last 
past have not only been full of accomplish- 
ment, but have given a distinct impetus to 
our municipal growth which must be felt 
far into the future. Our industries will 
multiply ; we will build great factories that 
sball dwarf those we think great to-day; 
our commercial relations with the outer 
world will expand, and our material wealth 
and prosperity will increase an hundred- 
fold. To the east, even to the hills, the 
valley will be filled with vast shops, em- 
ploying capital and labor in harmonious 
cooperation, and their so-called conflict of 
to-day will have become ancient history. 
To the west, Dayton will crowd the gates 
of a great National Park, devoted only to 
the health and pleasure of the people, for 
wars will no longer furnish crippled vet- 
erans or soldiers' graves. From north to 
south this beautiful basin, the three-riv- 
ered valley, will scarce suffice to keep the 
Dayton of the future within her bounds. 

This is not a foolish dream ; it is but the 
faint shadowing of that which our children 
and their children will see. 



But even better things than these shall 
be found in Dayton after a while. 

A new sense of the high honor and grave 
responsibility of public service will pre- 
vail. The best citizens will give their best 
thought and labor to the public good. A 
rational, effective civil service system will 
govern Dayton, and honesty, integrity, ca- 
pacity, not political creed, will test the 
right of every man to hold a place of pub- 
lic trust. 

Great institutional churches will be a 
part of future Dayton's better life. These 
will be open every day, and they will edu- 
cate the mind and strengthen the body, as 
well as minister to the spirit. 

Every public school in Dayton will have 
its kindergarten, its natural history mu- 
seum, its manual training department, its 
reference and circulating libraries. 

If the Dayton of the future may not 
harbor a great university, she will at least 
have the benefits of university teaching 
lirought to her doors, through the estab- 
lishment, not of one Extension Center, 
but of twenty. The best in art, science, 
sociology, will be brought to her upon the 
tongues of the greatest thinkers and talk- 
ers of the world, for University Extension 
will become international, and Dayton will 
rank among the great centers of this mag- 
nificent plan for popular education. 

These are but a meager hint of the things 
that shall be enjoyed in Dayton of the 
future. 




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TISCHER & REISINGER, 

LEONARD REFRIGERATORS 



GEH FREEZERS, 
LAWN HOWERS. 



34 North Main Street. 



F1TZPATRICK. 



Hatter 



New Callahan Block. No. 7 East Third St., DAYTON, O. 

^. OAPPEL, 

Manufacturer <if 

Umbrellas and Parasols. 
FACTORY and SALESROOMS, 139 E. Fifth St. 

F. OAPPEL ^ 

Manufacturer of and Dealer in 

Furniture, Carpets, and Stoves. 

133 and 125 E. Fifth St. DAYTON, O. 



GONDERT & LIENESCH, 

Miami Valley Box Factory, 

Office and Factory, Shawnee St. 

Between Wayne and Fifth Sts. 
^_ DAYTON, OHIO. 



I 



itv ) 



Superb Soda Water, 
ICE CREAM, 
and Fruit Ices. 



14 North Main St. 



0. F. OEhJLSCHLAGER, 

Sole Agent and Bottler of the 

N|orrow, Cream, and Xenia Ales, 

Cor. Wayne Ave. and Onk. St. 
Telephone 504. DAYTON, OHIO. 



WM. FOCKE & SONS, 

Dealers in a Full Line of 
All Kinds of 

Meats, Lard, and Provisions. 

Free Delivery to all parts of the city. 

Telephone 305. 1004 and 1006 E. Fifth St. 



Miss Worman <$ Company, 

-HOBEJ- 



NOS 10 & 12 E. FOURTH ST. 
OAVIES BLOCK. 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



ESTABLISHED 1835. 



Wholesalers 
', of.... 



W. S. PHELPS' SONS, 

GROCERIES, 



Tinners' Stock, 
Wire Cable, 

Nurserymen's Supplies, 
Cordage, and 
Tackle Blocks. 



23 and 25 East Second St., DAYTON, OHIO. 



Telephone 888. 



* McDERMONT & CLEMENS, x 

EINE PLUMBING, 



Gas Fixtures, Brackets, Globes, &c. 
. . RUBBER HOSE. . . 



13 East Second Street. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA. 








From a water-color palutinc by John W. Van Cleve, tn possession of Miss Martha Holt. 
From " Early Dayton," by permission of the U. B. Publishing House. 



Copyright, 1895, by Miss Martha Holt. 



A VIEW OF THE EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, IN 1855. 



Dayton owes much to the careful study and Main. These buildings contained the 

and painstaking observation of Mr. John banks, newspaper, and stores. Dayton 

W. Van Cleve. This little picture brings merchants kept genuine country stores, 

before us the business of Dayton after it and sold a very miscellaneous variety of 

had come to a focus at the corner of Third articles. 



Telephone 166. 



If 



1 511 HI HL 



Brewers and Bottlers. 



Fine old Beers a Specialty. 



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EAF^T 

DAYTON 



EELl 



Read the 
Special 
DAYTONIA 
Offer. 




SPECIAL OFFER FOR DAYTONIA WEEK. 




EARLY DAYTON, 



a complete history of the first half-century, 
with important facts ami incidents from 

the founding of the city of Dayton, Ohio, to the hundredth anniversary. 1796-1896. 

By Robert W. Steele ami Mahy Davies Steele. Illustrated. Acknowledged to be 

the best history nf Dayton published — the authoritative history. 

The best evidence of the excellence of this history is that since its publication in 

March it has been constantly quoted in public ami private, and commended by every 

one who has had occasion to study the city's history. The orators and essayists at all 

the public occasions during the Centennial Celebration spoke of its importance and 

urged its use in every home in Dayton. 

Used in planning DAYTONIA. 



One of the best judges in the city says: " Miss Steele has narrated in a charming 
style the leading events in the history of Dayton. She has interwoven with her nar- 
rative biographical sketches of prominent participants in those events, thereby adding 
piquancy to the interest the subject would naturally excite in the minds of Daytonians. 
Every citizen should feel it to be not only a duty, but a pleasure, to become thoroughly 
acquainted with the facts set forth in 'Early Dayton.' The attractiveness of the 
volume is enhanced by admirable illustrations, faultless printing, excellent paper, and 
neat binding." 



Three Editions are- 




CUT THIS OUT! 



IT WILL BE GOOD 
FOR 

I OC. on the 60c. Edition, 
20c. on the $1.25 Edition, 
40c. on the $4.00 Edition, 

EARLY DAYTON, 

if presrnted at thn 

U. B. BOOK STORE, 

Cor. Main and Fourth Sis.. 

at any time between Monday, 

May IS, 1896, and Saturday 

Evening, May 23, 1896. 



1. — Paper binding, thirty-eight illustrations, including scenes of early history, ^O.e50. 

1.25, 



Cloth binding, special design, with eighteen additional illustrations (a 
total of fifty-six), 



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3.— Edition de Luxe, large paper, wide margins, gilt top, with nineteen special 
illustrations (a total of seventy-five), half leather binding, limited 
number, ...__ _____ *-f>_,00. 

The last is the handsomest book of local history Dayton has had. It will prove valuable, 
as the number of copies is small and will not be increased. 

The entire work is a home enterprise,— authorship, manufacture, sale, and all. It will 
remain the best monument in book form of Dayton's Centennial. Its publisher has desired 
to issue a book that could go into every home in the city. Hence the prices of the various 
editions are lower than for hooks of similar size and style. 

If you cannot visit the Book Store and examine the books, a representative will call 
upon you. 

United Brethren Publishing House, 

Corner Main and Fourth Streets. 



^rf^r^ 1 T^E special offer named In the Coupon on this page will be good for the one 
week only. You want the book In your family. Buy It this week. It 
is a book to be kept and given to the children to be read as they grow older. 

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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



AUNTIE" BOYD. 



ELIZA HOLT. 




BfMONG the names long associated 
If, with early Dayton, few are de- 
serving of more kindly remem- 
brance than that of Miss Maria 
Boyd, or "Auntie" Boyd, as she was 
sometimes familiarly called. The 
page assigned me is amply sufficient for 
any needed record of her life and char- 
acter, much of which might be summed 
up in the single sentence, "She went about 
doing good." Her means, though limited, 
affording a competent support, she pur- 
chased a small home at the extreme end 
of First Street, where she resided till her 
death. Her family consisting only of a 
niece and a nephew, whom she had brought 
up from his infancy, enabled her to devote 
her time to the service which she loved. 
The almoner of others' bounty, as well as 
her own, she almost seemed to embody in 
her own person the associated charities of 
early Dayton. Long before those noble insti- 
tutions, the St. Elizabeth and Deaconess 
Hospitals, were founded, the quaint little 
figure of Miss Boyd, peculiar in manner, 
dress, and appearance, might be daily seen, 
undeterred by winter's cold or summer's 
heat, carrying food to the hungry, clothing 



to the destitute, or comfort to the afflicted ; 
or she might be met returning alone in 
the darkness of night from her errands of 
love and mercy. And not only could Miss 
Boyd encourage — she could reprove or 
rebuke when necessary. 

A single incident may serve to show the 
secret of her happy life. On one occasion, 
calling at the house, — it must have been 
on some of her benevolent enterprises, — 
with a beaming face she exclaimed : " I 
was so happy for a few days, I was so 
happy. I did not know why I should 
feel so, but I thought it might be I was 
going to die." To die! think of it, any 
" who through fear of death " are " all their 
lifetime subject to bondage." For Miss 
Boyd to die was gain. Dying in 1879, for 
seventeen years Miss Boyd has been in the 
presence of the Master whom she served, 
and who, when on earth himself, said: "I 
was an hungered, and ye gave me meat : 
I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : 
.... naked, and ye clothed me : I was 

sick, and ye , visited me Inasmuch 

as ye have done it unto one of the least 
of these my brethren, ye have done it unto 
me." 







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JOSEPH R. GEBHART & SON. 

McKEMY & NUTT, 
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 

ROOMS 9, 10, and II, MIINS BLDU., 
Corner Main and Fourth Streets. 

Telephone No. 690. 



JOHN HANITCH, 

ATTORNEY AT LAW, 
NOTARY PUBLIC. 



18 E. Third St., 



DAYTON, O. 



THIRD NATIONAL BANK, 

DAYTON, OHIO. 

UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. 



Capital, 

Surplus and Net Profits, 



$400,000.00 
140,911.66 



John K. McIntike, Pres. Chas. Rench, Cash. 

Rufus J. King, V.-Pres. Chas. J.Moore, Asst. Cash. 

A Qeneral Banking Business Transacted. 



FOR GOOD CLOTHING AT LOWEST PRICES 

GO TO 

SOL STRAUSS, 



THE LEADING- 



1 






28 and 30 E. Third St.. 
23 and 25 N. Market St., 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



THE DAYTON PAPER NOVELTY CO., 

INCORPORATED. 

PATENT 



MANUFACTURERS PAPER 

OF 



232 to 266 E. First Street, 

125 tn 141 N. Mill Street, 



PACKAGES. 

DAYTON, OHIO, U. S. A. 



BENJ. F. McCANN, 

ATTORNEY AT LAW. 

24 North Main Street, - DAYTON, OHIO. 

Telephone 958. 



ec£ 



\9 



«c£ 



Identified for nearly half a century with 
Dayton's every advancement and reform. 

THE RIKE DRY GOODS CO., 

MAIN AND FOURTH STREETS. 

We solicit a continuance of your favors. 



A. UEBHART, President. E. A. DANIELS, Vice-President. A. S. ESTABROOK, Cashier. THOS. GABLE, Assistant Cashier. 

The Merchants National Bank, ODD fell TImple. 

Receives Deposits. Discounts Acceptable Paper. Issues Their Own Drafts on Foreign Placos. Capital, &i00,00u. Surplus, $t>0,UOU. 

niDCrTHDC . A. UEBHART. J. H. VAILE. J. LINXWEILER, Jr., J. C. PEIRCE, A. J. (JONOVER, 
U1KCL. 1 UKO . a. (iERLADQH, E. A. DANIELS, <j. C. KENNEDY, SOL. RAUH. 

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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 





STATUE SURMOUNTING THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. 

"The memorial of Montgomery County to lier soldiers" was dedicated July 31, 1V44. Total height of the monu- 
ment is 85 feet. The model for the statue, which is 11 feet Ij inches in height, was (ieorge Fair of the regular army. 

Established 1»7. 



THE FASTEST GROWlNci fl fl fi fl H niinnrTT'fl \ 144 

Paint and Wall Paper House - IV fl MB | < \ 

In the State of Ohio is U IIU. I !• . Ull V 1L U. 



E ibt Tn i nn Street, 
Near St. Clair Street, 

Dayton, Ohio. 



:;i 



The Wheel in 1796. 

She sat beside her spinniug-wheel 

Demure and sweet and wise, 
The golden sunshine on her hair, 

Love's language in her eyes. 
Young Robert paused to note her skill — 

The capture was complete, 
For she who turns the spinning-wheel 

Brings lovers to her feet. 



The Wheel in 1896. 

She sits upon her STEARNS wheel, 

Coquettish, witty, fail ; 
The bloom of health is on her cheek, 

The sunlight on her hair. 
Young Edward's wheel keeps pace with hers 

Past field and forest wide, 
For she who rides a STEARNS wheel 

Brings lovers to her side. 



WE SELL THEM. 



Uhe 2)ayton Cycle Co., 

20 WEST SECOND STREET. 

cclusive Agency. 



Troy Laundry 



405, 407, 409 
East Third Street. 



Our work 
is simply 
out of sight. 



Call us up by Telephone 
587 and 160. 



Reed, Kelly & Co. 




.1 



f. 



106, 108, 110 East Second Street. 



Telephone 581. 



BEST WORK IN THE CITY. 




Full line of Sundries. 
First-class Repairing. 
Telephone 815. 

Gem City Cycle Co. 

CLIFFORD R. BOUCK, Mgr. 

No. 5 East Second Street. 



Thistle, Warwick, 

Vanguard, Allen, 

Gem Special, 

And a full line of 
medium grade wheels. 

The Elyria Juvenile, 

strongest, easiest running, 
and handsomest child's 
wheel made. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



DAYTON IN THE WAR. 



GENERAL SAMUEL BA< ON SMITH. 




HEN the proclamation of the 

President calling for the imme- 
diate enlistment of seventy-five 
thousand soldiers for a service of 
three months was received, Dayton 
responded with cheerfulness and 
alacrity, and within a very few days 
five companies of infantry were sworn into 
the service of the United States, and at 
least that many more were refused. These 
companies were attached to the First and 
Eleventh regiments. The First Regiment 
was mustered in at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 
April 29. 1861, with Dayton men as officers, 
as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin A. 
Parrott, Major John G. Hughes, Adjutant 
Joseph S. Parrott, Regimental Quartermas- 
ter James Steele, and Captains Peter Dister, 
Louis Kuhlman, Walter B. Pease, and John 
Crowe. The Eleventh Regiment was mus- 
tered in at Columbus, Ohio, April 26, 1861, 
the Dayton officers being Colonel J. Find- 
lay Harrison and Captains Calvin J. Childs 
and Michael P. Nolan. 

At the end of its term the First Ohio 
was returned to Dayton to be recruited for 
a term of three years. The organization 
was completed, and it went to the field in 
the fall of 1861 with the following Dayton 
men as officers: Lieutenant-Colonel Ed- 
win A. Parrott, Adjutant John Parrott, 
Captains Louis Kuhlman, Gates P. Thrus- 
ton, and Patrick O'Connell. 

Dayton claimed proprietorship in three 
infantry regiments, namely, the First, 
Eleventh, and Ninety-third. The Eleventh 
was recruited for three years at Camp 
Dennison and sent to West Virginia. It 



was, however, afterwards a part of the 
Army of the Cumberland and participated 
in some of its important battles, including 
Chickamauga. 

The Ninety-third Regiment was organ- 
ized at Dayton in the summer of LS62. its 
Dayton officers being as follows : Colonel 
Charles Anderson, Lieutenant - Colonel 
Hiram Strong, Assistant-Surgeon J. M. 
Weaver, Adjutant Dickenson P. Thruston, 
and Chaplain Osman A. Lyman, with 
Captains W. H. Martin, William Birch, 
Thomas C. Mitchell, and Samuel B. Smith. 

Besides the organizations above men- 
tioned Dayton was represented in numer- 
ous regiments of infantry, artillery, cav- 
alry, heavy artillery, sharpshooters, etc., by 
companies, squads, and recruits, some of 
her citizens participating in nearly every 
battle of the War. From the 1st of Sep- 
tember, 1862, until September 24, 1864, 
when the term of the First Regiment ex- 
pired, the First and Ninety-third regi- 
ments were attached to the same brigade 
and side by side confronted the enemy at 
Stone River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, 
Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, 
Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta. 

In the suppression of the great Rebellion 
it is sufficient to say that the city of Day- 
ton was in no way behind her sister cities 
in this and other Northern States in her 
manifestations of patriotism, and that she 
freely and cheerfully contributed her sons 
to the army, her daughters to the care of 
the wounded and suffering, and her means, 
in generous quantity, to the support of the 
Government. 




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Best 
Clothes 



Best 
Fixings, 



and [l\ — "_;-=— ™|a Vi^ all 

Hats. ^^W* Kinds. 
MOSE COHEN & CO., THIRD S TREET. 

D. G. PORTER, 
Y DENTIST, Y 

26 North Jefferson Street, - DAYTON, OHIO. 

Simms Building, Opposite Beckel House. 



H. L. HUBER. 



W. D. HUBER. 



HUBER BROTHERS, 

AUCTIONEERS AND STORAGE WAREHOUSEMEN, 



14, 16, and 18 S. Jeff. St., 
Telephone 786. 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



W. W. Ferguson. 



J. A. Phitz. 



F. B. Roup. 



THE ACME STAR STEAM LAUNDRY. 

WORKS AND MAIN OFFICE, 38 South St. Clair Street 
Telephone 1129. 



Established 1861. LEE R. HOOPER, Pees. 

DAYTON AWNING AND TENT CO 

33 NORTH JEFFERSON ST. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Awnings, Tents, Paulins, and All Kinds of 
Canvas Work. Sidewalk Canopies, Floor 
Covers, and Tents Rented. 



HARRY H. PRUGH, 

Attorney and Counselor at Law. 



Rooms 12 and 13 Kuhns Building, 
Fourth and Main Streets, 



DAYTON, O. 



Fred. Reibold, Edw. Pape, Sr„ Jos. Schumacher, 

President. Yice-Presideut. Cashier. 

THE TEUTONIA NATIONAL BANK. 

DAYTON, OHIO, 
Capital, $200,000. Surplus, $26,000. 



CRESCENT BICYCLES! 

SKY HIGH. 

PRICES: $40, $50, and $75. 
W. E. HAAS & CO., 20 WEST FIFTH STREET. 



THE EQUITABLE LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, 

INo. 3 NORTH JEFFERSON STREET. 

DIRECTORS : 

L. C. EVANS, M. COSTELLO, N. THOMAS, S. E. KUHLER, 

W. H. HOFFMAN, C. E. SPINDLER, THOS. De ARMON. 



Dyeing and Cleaning. 

Ladies' Dresses, Men's Clothing, Silks, Satins, 
Plushes, Portieres, Gcloves, Parasols, Etc. 

Dayton Cleaning and Repair Co.. E. R. Lines, Mgr, 



Plione 1070. 



37 WEST" FOURTH STREET. 



G. W. SHROYER & CO. 



GOOD BICYCLES. 

23 W. FIFTH STREET. 



DRINK. O-R COFFEE ! 

Roasted by an Improved Process. 

A Special Blend of High Grade Coffees. Packed in One Pound Cartons 
Only. Sold by All Grocers at 30 Cents Per Pound. 

DAYTON SPICE MILLS CO., ROASTERS. 

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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 




Prom "Early Daftou," by permission of the IT B. Publishing House. 

COLUMBIAN CENTENNIAL, OCTOBER 22, 1892 -A VIEW OF THE PROCESSION ON MAIN STREET. 



On the 22d of October, 1892, the Colum- 
bian Centennial was fittingly celebrated in 
Dayton by an immense procession of mili- 
tary and civic societies, school-children, 
and industrial exhibits, followed by appro- 
priate addresses and music in Cooper 
Park. 

No language can describe the mammoth 
parade, which contained within itself the 
best evidence, not only of the wonderful 
progress of the hundred years preceding, 
but also of the magnificent manufactories 
and business enterprises of our city. 

The addresses were worthy of the occa- 



sion, and the singing of "My country, 
't is of thee," by the school-children was 
most inspiring, and wrought up the im- 
mense multitude to a high pitch of en- 
thusiasm. 

"The voice of gratitude and praise for 
all the blessings which have been showered 
upon mankind by Columbus's adventure is 
limited to no language, but is uttered in 
every tongue. Neither marble nor brass 
can fitly form his statue. Continents are 
his monument, aud unnumbered millions, 
present and to come, will preserve his name 
and fame." 



The Brown-Bierce Company, Fine Illustrators. 



The Dayton Brewing Company, 

BREWERS AND BOTTLERS OF FINE BEERS. 



TELEPHONE 410. 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



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The M. Ohmer's Sons Co. 




WE 



ARE now read)' to see you at our New Store, 
Corner Main and Fifth Streets. 



THE FINEST SALESROOMS, 

THE FINEST STOCK OF FURNITURE 



IN THE STATE. 



v???i?v?i?1?i?i?i?vPv?'t?v?vi'i?'i?ii'i? 



Our Upholstering and Repairing Departments are on the sixth floor 
and we are prepared to do over your old furniture on short notice. 



Prices Remain the Lowest. 



The H. OHMER'S SONS CO., 

Corner Main and Fifth Streets. 



w "I/NSURA/NeE" 



GASOLINE 
STOVE. 




SIMPLEST ! 

SAFEST ! 

BEST ! 

YOU CANNOT. 



EXPLODE IT ! 

No Treacherous Drip Cups. 
Lights with a Torch &£>& 
Automatic Cut-Off Burner. 

CCC VV BEFORE PURCHA SING ! 



jg ggi.gv. THE DAYTON MANUFACTURING CO. 

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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



THE INDUSTRIES OF DAYTON. 




E. M. THKESHKK. 



»N the industries of a city we find 
the sum of its enterprise, intel- 
ligence, and thrift added to the 
opportunities of its environment. The 
same natural causes which made the beau- 
tiful Miami Valley accessible to its first 
settlers gave them also ready means of 
communication with other markets, where 
the surplus products of their labor and 
skill might be exchanged for the comforts 
and luxuries there obtainable. 

When our pioneers landed their pirogue 
at the mouth of Mad River they found 
here a healthful and beautiful location, a 
productive soil, an available supply of 
power to turn the wheels of their manu- 
factories, and ready means of communi- 
cation with outside markets. The same 
natural causes which led them to this 
favored spot also brought to their doors the 
canal and railroad when the time came 
that the packet must supplant the flat- 
boat and the pirogue, itself in turn to be 
replaced by the lightning express. From 
the time that the completion of the Miami 
and Erie canal gave to Dayton its splen- 
did water-power there has been a steady 
growth of its industries, until we see 
to-day the prosperous Gem City, with its 
80,000 inhabitants, and its productions 
known in all the States and in other 
continents. 

Besides the usual jobbing trades and 
local industries of a thriving city, Dayton 



possesses large wholesale establishments in 
the lines of groceries, dry gondii, spices, 
confections, millinery, books, station- 
ery, and other commodities. It has for 
years been favorably and widely known 
for its manufacture of railroad cars, agri- 
cultural implements, wood, iron, cotton, 
clay-working and paper-making machin- 
ery, linseed oil, paints, varnishes, oil 
presses, water-wheels, pumps, gas and 
steam engines, boilers, iron and brass cast- 
ings, electrical machinery, cash register-, 
computing scales, carriages, flour, paper 
and cardboard, ale and beer, lasts and pegs, 
boots and shoes, wood and paper boxes, 
bookbinders' machinery, wheels, hubs and 
spokes, sewing-machines, bicycles, stoves 
and castings, builders' supplies, furniture, 
lard oil, candles and soap, flavoring ex- 
tracts, tobacco, toilet articles, business 
stationery, newspapers, books and period- 
icals, and many other young and growing 
industries. Its biscuits and crackers are 
famous, as are its pills and tonics, and it 
furnishes in many kinds remedies for all 
ills that man is heir to. 

In the wide diversity of its manufac- 
tures lies one of the chief sources of our 
city's present strength and future promise. 
It is generally conceded that the proposed 
Centennial Exhibit of the manufactures of 
Dayton will be a revelation to the public, 
who have little idea of the extent, per- 
fection, and variety of its products. 




The Mutual Home & Savings Association, 



OIF 1 JD_&."Z"T02ST, OHIO. 



Cash Assets, January I, 1896, - $2,229,598.78. 

jjv, ron Dividends paid to all members. ^y, rj> 

Money loaned on Real Estate at 7 per cent, interest. 



JOSIAH E. BOYER, President. 

JOHN E. VIOT, Vice-President. 



S. RUF US JONES, General Manager. 

WILLIAM H. KIMMEL, Secretary. 



John K. Mclntire. J. F. Schneider, 

John S. Mclntire. Chas. P. Althoff. 

Edward M. Mclntire. 



J. K. MCINTIRE & CO., 

— WHOLESALE GROCERS — 



ITo. US ISToeth 3v£a.ikt St., 
* * * * * DAYTON. OHIO. 

ZWICK, lEIflLD I CO., 

f LIMITED. ) 



-MANUFACTURERS OF- 



HTJBS, 
SPOKES and 
FELLOES. 




DAYTON, OHIO. 



BROOKS & SON, 

PLUMBERS, 
Steam and Hot-Water Fitters. 

42 North Jefferson Street. 



TfJE JJ. THAqEI^ CO., 

§| Wholesale Grocers. 



112 and 114 North Main St., 

DAYTON, O. 



Daytonia Loan Exhibition, 

In M. OHMER'S SONS' Store Rooms, N. Main St. 



Old portraits of people who helped to make Dayton, relics of past 
customs, old china, silver, miniatures, and other curios associated with 
the early history of Dayton. Such a collection was never gathered 
in this city before. 



Go and See It— Admission, 10 Cents. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



DAYTON— THE CITY OF CHURCHES. 




'HE count made on April 1, in this 
Centennial year, shows that Dayton 
has 81 churches, or public places ot 
worship. Of these 71 are Protestant, 7 
Catholic, and 3 Jewish. The whole popu- 
lation of Dayton is about 80,000. Now, if 
we bear in mind that infants, the sick and 
infirm, those temporarily absent, and those 
engaged in more or less necessary Sunday 
labor must be deducted from the number 
of church attendants ; if we add to the 
places of worship reported the services 
held at the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, the Woman's Christian Association, 
the Widows' Home, the Asylum for the 
Insane, the Catholic and Protestant hospi- 
tals, and other places; especially, if we 
remember that each of the churches holds 
several services on Sunday and during the 
week, it is evident that the proportion of 
public religious privileges to the population 
is very large, and that no one in the city 
need go far to find a place of worship 
congenial to his convictions and tastes. 
Many of the churches are commodious 
and elegant structures, ornaments to our 
city, as well as constant invitations to 
higher things. Among the congregations 
referred to are 12 Methodist, 11 Baptist, 
11 United Brethren, 9 Presbyterian, 7 



H. !■'. COLBY, 1>. I). 



Lutheran, li Reformed, 3 Episcopal, and 
12 other denominations of one or two 
congregations each. In matters of com- 
mon Christian interest all these have for a 
long time worked together with the greatest 
harmony and good feeling. Indeed, while 
every thoughtful Christian must have his 
own denominational preferences, our com- 
munity has been singularly free from those 
jealousies and antagonisms which develop 
sectarian bitterness. 

Of our 80,000 people, 30,604 are reported 
as belonging, to some religious organization. 
On the morning of Easter Sunday the con- 
gregations aggregated 26,392, besides many 
children in the Sunday schools who did 
not attend the other services. In the 
Sunday schools there were 14,459. The 
various church property is valued at 
$1,858,315. The amount raised for church 
expenses in 1895 was $182,409, and the 
amount given by the churches to benevo- 
lence and charity was $107,538. Aside 
from the bearing of these things upon 
spiritual consolations and the hopes of the 
future, who can estimate their influence 
upon the morality, integrity, and mutual 
confidence of our citizens? Such a city of 
churches can be " no mean city," if those 
churches are faithful to their work. 




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from the notched stick to the 

National Cosh Register 
The Progress <>f One Hundred Years 





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STEELE HIGH SCHOOL. 



"In the spring of 1850, the Central High School 
of Dayton was opened. In the fall it was located 
in the old academy building, where it remained 
until 1857, when a new building was put up for it 
on the same ground — on the southwest corner of 
Fourth and Wilkinson streets. . . . Since then the 



roll of teachers and pupils has lengthened, and the 
curriculum broadened, but the same spirit of zeal, 
energy, and enthusiasm rules in the new High 
School building, occupied since 1892, and named 
in honor of one of the best friends of the schools 
—Robert W. Steele."— From "Early Dayton." 



Dayton this month celebrates her centennial. 

The National Cash Register Company celebrates: 

1. The perfection of the finest factory system in the world, 

2. The shipment of its one hundred thousandth cash register, 

3. The dedication of its new factory building. 

4. The return of good times. 

5. The largest business in its history. 



SEIDL & MERKLE, 

Dealers in Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers. 
25 East Third Street. 

Sign of the Wire Boot. 



D. LEONHARD & SON, 

Dayton's 
Oldest and Best Saddlery House. 

You are all invited to call on them. 
25 South Main Street. Dayton, Ohio. 



BOSLER'S BAKERY, 

40 South Main Street. 

J. T. DRYDEN, 

Staple and Fancv Grocer. 
Main and Second. 

Telephone 521. 

OWENS & HIXSON 

Make Shirts 
That Fit. 

C. L. G. BREENE, 

Merchant 
Tailor. 
7 North Jefferson St. Dayton, O. 

S. B. WILLIAMS, 

The Leading HATTER and Furrier. 

Telephone 495. 

10 North Main Street. 



H. N. WILES & CO.. 



20 East Third St., 
Dry Goods, Wraps, Etc. 



PRUDEN'S FAIR, 

House Furnishing Goods, Baby Car- 
riages, and Refrigerators. 

Novelties for Presents. 
4 & 6 East Fifth Street. Pruden's Building. 



You can get anything you may need to 
furnish your home at 

BYRNE & PALMER'S, 

in East Third Street. 

Cash or Credit. 

CARNELL'S, 

S. E. Corner Third and Main Streets. 
An Up-to-Date 

Drug Store. 



Central Wine Depot. 
WILLIAM SANDER, 

Foreign and Domestic Wines and Liquors 

Telephone 585. 
Corner Third and St. Clair Streets. 



CROSLEY & ADAMSON, 

Wholesale Grocers, 
117 East Third Street, Dayton, Ohio. 

Huffman Block. 

JOS. FERNEDING & CO., 

Dealers in Fine Boots and Shoes. 

34 East Third Street, 
Dayton, Ohio. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF DAYTON. 



E. L. SHUEY. 




f'N this Centennial year there are 
|s about 11,000 children and youth 
in the public schools of Dayton. 
Of this number nineteen-twen- 
tieths will receive all their educa- 
tion in these schools. The very small 
proportion remaining will have more 
or less of the training of the college or tech- 
nical school. Not one thousand of the 
eleven thousand are in the High School. 
About ninety-eight hundred are under 
fifteen years of age. For the instruction 
of these youth the city employs a super- 
intendent, twenty-six high-school, four 
special, and nearly three hundred district- 
school teachers. 

These facts only serve to emphasize the 
importance of a well-rounded course of 
study, broadly planned and carefully ex- 
tended, in order that there may be the 
widest possible training for the great ma- 
jority whose education is to be so limited, 
as well as the greatest encouragement and 
most thorough instruction for those who 
are to have the more advanced opportuni- 
ties of the High School. That instruction 
only will be adequate which best fits the 
child for his environment and gives to him 



the incentive for the most complete devel- 
opment of himself. That this can no longer 
be limited to the " three It's'' is fully dem- 
onstrated, and the question ought to be 
more fully appreciated by parents and in- 
structors alike. 

In nothing is the contrast of the hundred 
years more striking than in the require- 
ments of education. Where success in 
almost any calling was assured to him who 
with the most elementary education united 
good judgment, now even the least calling 
requires a good knowledge of many sub- 
jects, and the higher positions in mechanic 
and mercantile pursuits alike demand train- 
ing of head and hand. 

Above all this, there must be in all schools 
that instruction in the history and genius 
of our country and its government, that 
sense of honor and responsibility for its 
control, that love of home and its duties, 
which will make the hoys and girls of 
to-day a strong generation, truth-loving, 
independent in thought, and always loyal 
to home and country. Only as these ele- 
ments are firmly fixed in the youth, do the 
schools of Dayton fulfill the proper demands 
of its citizens. 




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thoroughly first-class machine of small to medium capacity, 
at moderate cost, especially adapted for Hotels, Hospitals, 
Butchers, Dealers in Fruits, Vegetables, Fish, Etc.^*^*^^^ 



ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 



ON APPLICATION 



\l/ E also manufacture on a large scale Turbines, Steam 
Pumps, Oil-Mill Machinery, Feed-Water Heaters, Filter 
Presses, Power-Transmitting Machinery, Etc. <£•<£•<£•£•£•<£ 

*£?* t£T* jjT** fi»* t** e* t&^ Zt* ttw^ &^* t*^* tt^* 



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DAYTON, OHIO. 

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SOUVENIR OF DAYTON I A 




From " Karly Daylnn," hy permlBflton <>f Ifae^U. B. Publishing House.* 

ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL. 

"The St.JElizabeth Hospital is a Roman was needed. Six acres of land in Brown- 
Catholic institution, which was started on town were purchased, and the corner-stone 
Franklin Street, in 1878, in a very modest laid in 1881 for a large building. There, 
way by two Sisters of the Poor of St. supported by voluntary contributions, they 
Francis. They soon found that there was are doing a noble work. Capacity, 242 
a broad field for their work. More room patients." 



THE BROWN-BIERCE COMPANY, ENGRAVERS BY EVERY METHOD. 



01 



hen "Daytonia" is past, 



You will need 



The Best Place 
in Dayton for 



Reading for the Summer. 
Books of All Kinds is t^ 




Cor. Main and Fourth Sts. 



U. B. Book Store, 



4--» 



NORTH STAR FINE CUT. 



YE OLD-TIME CHEW! 



ALWAYS THE BEST. 

GOTTERILL, FENNER & CO, 



E 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Turbine Water Wheels, 

Paper and Pulp Mill Machinery, 

GEARING, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, ETC. 

ME SIMON 6EBHART SONS FLOUR 00., 

COR. THIRD AND FRONT STS , DAYTON, 0. 

MANUFACTURERS OF FLOUR AND DEALERS IN 

CORN, OATS, HAY,OILMEAL, 

AND ALL KINDS OF MILL FEED. 

Your orders solicited for all kind of Feed, also, Flour 
by the Barrel. Delivered promptly to all parts of the 
city. Telephone 274. 

THE SIMON GEBHART SONS FLOUR C(h_ 

lie Norlhwestern Mutual UK insurance Co., 

OF MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Assets, 
Surplus, 



$82,000,000 
16,000,000 



J. M. MARKHAM. Gen'l Agt., DAYTON, O. 



I. & C. VAN AUSDAL, 

IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 

CARPETS, 

LINOLEUM, FLOOR AND TABLE OILCLOTHS, 

Paper Hangings, Curtain Materials, Window Shades. 
23 South Main Street, DAYTON, OHIO. 



Henry Hilgerkort, Wm. J. Lukasu it/., (has. H. Lckaswttz, 
President. Secretary. Vice-President. 

THE BAKER COMPANY, 



WHOLESALE 



Liquors, Wines, Ales, Beers, Etc. 



27 NORTH MAIN ST., 



DAYTON, O. 



JACOB STICKLE, 

CITY BREWERY, 

653 and 655 Warren Street, 

DAYTON, OHIO. 



1856. 1896. 

C A. STARR, 

wholesale and retail dealer in 

CORL, COKE, UNO BUILDING MATERIAL, 

Lime, Cement, Sewer Pipe, Plaster, Fertilizers, Fire Brick 
and Clay, Flue Lining, Chimney Tops. 

125 to 131 WAYNE AVENUE, DAYTON, OHIO. 

TELEPHONE 217. 



FORSTER, HEGMAN & CO., 

DEALERS IN 

CARPETS AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, WALL PAPER, MOLDING, ETC. 



122 East Third Street, Between Jefferson and St. Clair Streets, 

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DAYTON, OHIO. 



SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL. 



FATHER CHARLES A. KEMPER. 




ELIZABETH 



HOSPITAL, 
an imposing 



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which now forms 
W aggregation of buildings on the 
western bank of the Miami, in 
Browntown, had its very humble 
beginning in a two-story brick house 
on Franklin Street, near Ludlow. 
Next to God, its founding is chiefly due to 
the zeal, wisdom, and personal sacrifices of 
the late Rev. J. F. Hahne. As pastor of 
Emanuel's congregation, this saintly man 
clearly recognized the crying need of a 
hospital in our large city, and repeatedly 
made futile efforts to realize his hopes and 
prayers for its establishment. When at 
last, on July 2, 1878, two Franciscan sisters 
arrived from Cincinnati to undertake the 
work, they came at his solicitation, and 
assumed full control of the unpretentious 
yet neat house he had leased and prepared 
for their occupancy. 

The first patient received in the original 
St. Elizabeth Hospital was an accident 
case — a poor brakeman, whose arm had 
been frightfully crushed in the yards about 
the depot. The work once begun, the 
number of applications for admission in- 
creased so rapidly that it soon became 
painfully evident how utterly inadequate 
to the demands made upon it were the ac- 
commodations of the Franklin Street house. 
Accordingly, after much prayer and con- 
sultation, and with scarce any funds save 
an unlimited fund of trust in the Father 
of the poor and in the generosity of the 
people of Dayton, the sisters purchased the 



site whereon was built the present roomy 
and splendidly equipped edifice, which was 
formally dedicated on Nov. 19, 1882. To 
the main structure other smaller buildings 
were in time added, either by purchase or 
erection, specially noticeable among the 
latter kind being what is called "St. Ann's 
House," whose purpose it is to receive, 
whenever necessary, such cases as require 
isolation or special treatment. 

St. Elizabeth Hospital has already had 
an existence of nearly eighteen years. 
During that period fully fifteen thousand 
patients, afflicted with almost every form 
of suffering to which the human family is 
liable, have been nursed within its walls, 
no question as to creed, color, nationality, 
or pay being ever asked to determine the 
admission. 

God alone can estimate what a record of 
unselfish devotion on the one hand, and of 
alleviated suffering on the other, is con- 
tained in these cold figures of its age and 
beneficiaries; and from him, surely, came 
the inspiration that moved the projectors 
of Daytonia to resolve that the proceeds of 
this part of Dayton's Centennial celebra- 
tion should be equally divided between two 
institutions which, for their structural 
excellences, their monumental testimony 
to the generosity of our citizens, and their 
silent but eloquent evidence of Christ-like 
service done by sisters and unsalaried 
medical staff, are not the least of many 
reasons why Dayton proudly celebrates her 
first centenary. 




PROGRAM. 



SCENE I, 1796. 

Our Grandmother in Newcom's Log Cabin Laboriously Making One Shirt in One 
Day. 

SCENE II, 1886 TO 1896. 

Ten Years of the Century Just Closing Devoted to the Developing and Per- 
fecting of 

GARMENT MANUFACTURE 



IN THE GEM CITY 



Under Our Namesake's Trade Mark 




SCENE III, yVVMY, 1896. 

DAYTON SUPPLYING THE WORLD . 

WITH OVER 

FIFTY THOUSAND DOZEN ANNUALLY 

SHIRTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, PANTALOONS, 
OVERALLS, WORKING JACKETS, LINED DUCK 
COATS, Through 

THE GEM SHIRT CO. 

GR/\ND FINALE- 

"DAYTONIA" Praising the Industry Which Introduces Her to the World. 



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SOUVENIR OP DAYTON I A 



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THE DEACONESS HOSPITAL. 



This is no now form (if Christian work, 
though the method and arrangement of 
this organization may be new to many. 
The term " deaconess " seems to have been 
applied in the apostolic churches to a 
woman devoted to special religious work. 
In modern times the movement which 
appropriated this name began in Germany 
in L836, under Pastm- Fliedner at Kaisers- 
werth, on the Rhine, where a hospital and 
training institution were opened, which 
have grown to large proportions. This 
movement grew out of a deeply-felt need 
for better trained nurses for hospitals, and 
also out of the conviction that Protestants 
had a duty to perform in relieving lie- 



wants of the suffering similar to that which 
had been done so effectively by Roman 
Catholic sisterhoods. The work was first 
introduced into this country in 1849. 

The society in Dayton was organized in 
August, 1890. On the 18th of October, 
1891, a temporary hospital, on Fourth 
Street near St. Clair, was opened under the 
direction of the society, ami its usefulness 
proved that it met a felt need in the com- 
munity. 

The large, new building, which has been 
occupied since the 14th of October, lSi>4, is 
also a deaconess home ami a school of train- 
ing for them, founded and conducted upon 
an interdenominational basis. 




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The 

Crowning 

Triumph 

of 

the 

Century 

is 



THE 




DAYTON 
BICYCLE 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



VIEWS ABOUT DAYTON. 



COLONEL E. A. PARKOTT. 




HE broad, well-paved, and well- 
kept streets, the handsome grounds 
surrounding many beautiful 
homes, and the long rows of trees 
shading the sidewalks justify one in 
calling Dayton "the Gem City." But 
to appreciate fully her beauty one must 
look down and across the city from some 
of the surrounding heights. The framing 
sometimes lends an additional charm to 
the picture. 

Our city is girdled by hills, through 
which, on the northeast and southwest, the 
liver breaks a channel for itself and winds 
with loving embrace about the city on two 
sides. From the heights on the cast, just 
where they begin to fall off towards Har- 
ries', there is a wide and beautiful view 
up the valley of the Mad River, and look- 
ing westward one gets a better idea of the 
extent of the city than from any other 
point with which I am familiar, since from 
this more of it lies open to the view. 

Then from Belmont there is another 
pretty view, with water in the prospect, in- 
cluding the Miami below the bridge and 
Mad River above its mouth 

But the one I think the finest, perhaps 
because I have looked out upon it for so 
many years and become familiar with ever)' 
feature of it, may be had from the Oakwood 
hills. From where I am sitting I see on 
the right the dome of the Asylum, lifting 
itself above the surrounding grove; in the 
foreground, on the shoulder of the hill, is 
Woodland, all the somber features of 
which just now are hidden away beneath 
the thick foliage of the trees. Farther out 
towards the northeast, across the factory 



chimneys, with their flags of smoke, the 
hills meet the eye again, seeming to rise 
in tiers to the sky line. 

A grove of maples cuts off the view of the 
city directly in front of me, but a little to 
the left there is a break, through which one 
gets glimpses of bits of the river, and of 
bush-grown islets, and the river bridges, 
and Dayton View, climbing the terrace-like 
hills, and beyond, the woods meeting the 
horizon. 

There is a misty look about these distant 
hills that reminds one of the cloudy atmos- 
phere of the mountains — not the snow- 
capped peaks of Switzerland, but those 
that rise above the banks of "the blue 
Juniata," along which one rides on the 
Pennsylvania Central. 

Directly to my left I look across a broad 
valley and see the sluggish canal and the 
Miami winding like a silver thread around 
the base of the hills, and on the rising 
grounds across the river broad farms, on 
the open spaces of which the floating clouds 
make pictures of light and shade; and 
then the Soldiers' Home, and the flag, 
for which so many of these old fellows 
gave health and limbs, floating to the 
breeze. 

Space does not allow me to speak of the 
glories of our woods in autumn, when the 
elm and the maple and the sumac are all 
waving their gorgeous banners of yellow 
and crimson and red, nor of the charms 
which even winter lays upon the hillsides 
and the rivers, no longer hidden under the 
foliage of the skirting woods. 

Beautiful, indeed, for situation is the city 
in which we dwell. 



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CHAS. W. SCHENK, Secretary. 



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The Ki.ki: & Coleman Co., Louisville. Ky. 

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Soda Water, 
Ginger Ale. 

Selzer Water, Champagne Cider, Orange 
Cider, all kinds of Carbonated Beverages. 
Portable fountains charged on short notice. 

Office and Factory, Cor. First St. and Canal. 

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1DYLWILI), ON THE MIAMI RIVER, NORTH OF DAYTON. 




From "F.;irh Dayton," by p'Tnilasioo oft 



A VIEW ON STILLWATER, NEAR ITS CONFLUENCE WITH THE MIAMI. 

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C. G. WALDO, G.n.ral Mnnwj.r. 

D. G. EDWARDS, Pass.-Traffic Manager, 



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No. 9 SOUTH HAIN STREET. 

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SOUVENIR TO DAYTONIA 



THE FLORA OF DAYTON. 




rmu.ii's. 



N old book of paintings, by John spring the bright fares of the marsh mari- 

W. Van Cleve, of the flowers na- golds; but the blue-eyed Mary, the "paint- 

tive in this region is a valued ed cup," and the Indian pipe, with many 

possession in the household of one others which Mr. Van Cleve pictures by 



of those children of nearly fifty years ago, 
who learned the secrets of nature from hi< 
lips and the love of nature from his life. 
''The Beauties of Flora," as he called his 
little book, contains the most delicate of 
water-color sketches, not done in the im- 
pressionist style of to-day, but with a mi- 
nuteness of detail which shows even the 
tiniest of veins, telling better than words 
the artist's careful study and love of flow- 
ers, and giving us, who have followed him, 
a delightful glimpse of what has been lost 
in the growth of our much-loved city. 

Though many of the bright little blos- 
soms which adorn the pages of this book 
are strange to us, yet there are many old 
friends. The spring beauty still peeps out 
of the grass in almost every bit of woods 
about us; we still find the frail little anem- 



the side of our own favorite-, are unknown 
to all of us not learned in the lore of 
flowers. 

We are all familiar with the hepatica, 
and in marshy places the wild flag still 
grows, while shady spots by the riverside 
often shelter little clusters of Dutchmen's 
breeches; but how often do we meet the 
fringed gentian or a bit of spiderwort, the 
moccasin plant or the pride of Ohio? and 
even the trillium, that most pure and 
beautiful of our native flowers, is no longer 
easy to find. Every one knows how faith- 
ful the dear little violet is, but when I see 
how many varieties old John Van Cleve 
knew I come to the conclusion that our 
violet is the only kind that is " true blue." 

Delicate and dainty as are our spring 
and early summer blooms, no pen can do 



one and the sturdy bloodroot, both of justice to the wild roses, the goldenrod, 



which come and go so suddenly, and are so 
different in every other respect; now and 
then we meet the St. Jacob's ladder, with 
its delicate little blue bells ; the wild sweet- 
william still scents the air, and along a little 
stream south of town one can see everv 



and the asters that deck our fields late in 
the summer and fall, crowning the depart- 
ing season with a glory which almost, if 
not quite, equals that which is bestowed \>y 
the frost upon the late months, when he 
turns the trees to crimson and gold. 




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Crand Historical Spectacular, given by the Ladies and 
Centlemen of Dayton to commemorate Dayton's Cen- 
tennial Year. Proceeds to be equally divided between 
the St. Elizabeth and Deaconess Hospitals. 



Galvanized Iron and Copper Cornices and 
Building Trimmings. 

CHAS. WUICHET & CO., 

No. 16 South Canal Street. 



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Furnished the Ink for This Program. 



THE CORNS PENCE & FOUNDRY CO,, 



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FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FIRST ACT OF DAYTOMA. 



ACT I. 



Will you see the players w<'ll bestowed? . . . 

They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time.— 

Shakespeare : Hamlet, Act It.. Scene 2. 
SYNOPSIS. 
Scene L — Dayton, 1799, showing Newcom's Tavern, Miami and Mad rivers.— Settlers, etc. — Arrival 
of settlers' conestoga wagon drawn by four horses.— Attack by Indians; arrival of soldiers; 

skirmish.— Sunset ; n nlight; darkness; Boliloquy.— Vision with moving Bgures,showing the 

Steele High School, with trolley cars, bicycles, etc., passing. ( New mechanical effect.) 

DRAM ATIS PERSONAE. 

COLONEL NEWCOM, Keeper of Tavern Mr. Harry R. Daniels 

ABRAHAM, a Pioneer Mr. Edward G. Pease 

JOHN DAVIS, a- Mover Mr. Harrie Pease Clegg 

EAGLE EYE, Indian Chief Mr. Carl Lov 

COLONEL WAITE, of Continental Array Mr. Robert C. Mem. 

GEORGE EMMERSON, a Pioneer Miller Mr Joseph W Mead 

BLACK HAWK, a Friendly Indian Mr. Fred. T. Darsi 

UK'K, Son of Pioneer Mr. Carlton P. Rousii 

JOANNA, Daughter of Pioneer Miss Louise Howard 

MRS. CAROLINE THOMPSON, Wife of Pioneer Miss Mary P. Davies 

MOVER'S WIFE Mrs. Fred. T. Darst 

ETHEL (three and one-half years old) I.itti.i: FrEDA LuELI \ McWlLLlAMS 

MRS. MARY ROLL (ninety-six years old, (irst white girl born in Dayton) By Herself 

JESSE BOOHER : : ' 1!y Himself 

SETTLERS, MOVERS, SOLDIERS, INDIANS, !■;■,, . 



THE 



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PURIFIESTHE BLOOD. 

GIVES STRENGTH AND APPETITE. 



THE REV. J. P. WATSON, Editor Gospel 
Herald, benefited by Dr. Harter's Iron 
Tonic. 

Dayton, ' Ihio, July 11, 1895. 
Gentlemen: I have kept Dr. Harter's 
Iron Tonic by me as a remedy for ten years, 

and my system "always tones up under its 

t h. I can but feel that it has proven life 

itself to me in many instances, and have 
never regretted furnishing yon my testi- 
monial ami its general use by you. I con- 
sider it the best tonic I ever used. 



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TELEPHONE 9*4. 



WICKLIFFE BELVILLE, 
Attorney at Caw, 



No. 14 East Third Street. 



Dayton. Ohio. 



ttfp (Uafconae $<xn&, 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



W. P. Callahan, Pres. 
W. B. Gebhaet, Cashier. 



A General Banking Business Transacted. 

aS* o5» Foreign Exchange for Sale. 



Assets. JS5.000.000. 
Surplus. $17,000,000. 



Insure In 

IHE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INS. GO. 

\l/t,, , O Because it pays the largest dividends, as proved by 
»' ••J • the fact that Dayton's bestbusiuess men are carrying 
policies to the extent ot $3,000,UUO. 



The Company has also contributed largely to the 
development of Dayton, by reason of its loans on 
local improvements aggregating $500,000. 



rjrf nnnr J. J- M. Markfiam. Sen, Agt. 
IW HOUI. «*" H. (i. Puwning, S//I Agt. 



J. H. BAGGOTT. 



THOS. U. HERKMAN. 



BAGGOTT Z< HERRMAN, 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 



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Office, 9 & 10 Eaker Block. 



Fourth H> -National * Sank, 

Northeast Corner Third and Jefferson Sts. 

Capital and Surplus, $720,000. 



TRANSACT f\ GEINERflL BAIN K I IN G BUSINESS. 



DIRECTORS : 
E.J.BARNEY, C, J. FERNEDING, W. J. SHTJEY, EDWARD CANBY, TORRENCE HUFFMAN, 



JOHN W. STODDARD, W. E. CRUME, 

TORRENCE HUFFMAN, President. 



HOUSTON LOWE, 

OFFICERS : 

J. B. THRESHER, Vice-President. 



J. B. THRESHER. 



C. L. HARDMAN, Cashier. 



S> Union <^afe ©eposif arte ZxuBt Company at 



N. E. CORNER THIRD AND JEFFERSON STS. 



For safe-keeping of all valuables in fire- and burglar-proof 
vaults at moderate p rices. Private boxes rented at Five Dol- 
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W. J. SHUEY, EDWARD CANBY, 

J. D. PLATT, JOHN W. STODDARD, 

C. J. FERNEDING, GEO. J. ROBERTS, 

J. B. THRESHER. 



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W. J. SHUEY, Vice-President. 

ZIBA CRAWFORD, Secretary and Treasurer. 
D. W. STEWART, Custodian. 



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3. D. Piatt, UicePresident. 
3. C. Reber, Cashier 



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Surplus, $132,000. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



ACT II. 



Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire 
Mirth and youth, aud warm desire! 

— Milton: Song on May morning. 



SYNOPSIS. 

Scene I. — Dayton in 1841. Third and Main streets, looking north. 

ERASTUS JEFFERSON, Davies' Servant Mb. DbWitt H. Bblden 

Scene II. — May-day at Steele's Woods. 

One hundred and fifty ladies and gentlemen, introducing the crowning of the May 
Queen; the May-pole dance; songs by double quartette; colonial minuet under the man- 
agement of Mrs. B. Raven; Dan Tucker; Virginia reel, and the usual picnic finale — tin- 
May rain-storm. Everybody runs for shelter. 

DOUBLE QUARTETTE. 



Soprano. 

Mrs. H. II. I'.IM.M. 

Mrs. I'keh 0. Weaver. 

Tenor. 

Mb. II. II. P.imm. 

Mr. Frank A. Palmer. 



Alto. 
Mrs. Herbert I'.. Brown. 
Miss Maud Rebeh. 

Bass. 
Mr. Harry L. Munqeb. 
Mr. Harry E. Tobpin. 






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ACT III. 

Cease to consult* the time for action calls. 
War. horrid war, approaches to your walls. 

—Poi«: Iliad, 

SYNOPSIS. 

Scene I. — Interior of a Dayton home in 1861 ; " Breaking Home Ties."— The opening of the Civil War. 
—Brave brothers ( two Dayton boys I display unsullied patriotism. 

Scene II.— Street in Dayton in 1861. Third and Main streets, looking north. 

Mr. Charles \V. Terry, Mr. Will II. Weifi enbach, Mr. Louis Kasmihsky and tiEN. 
Sherman Potterf, as the Awkward Squad. 

Si exe III.— Off to the War, showing the Dayton troops passing the old court-house. The most 
thrilling and realistic stage effect ever presented. Apparently 5,000 troops, including 
infantry, cavalry, artillery, numerous bands and drum corps, will pass in full review 
of the audience. — " Soldiers' Farewell." 

DRAMATIS PERSONAE. 

GEO. WILSON, \ f Twin Brothers who have \ f Mr. Clement A. Herchelrode 

DAVE WILSON, J l enlisted in the 93d O.V.I. I " " ^Me. Harvey Conover 

CAPTAIN KISSINGER Mr. Perry W. Weidnee 

MISS MARGUERITE WILSON Miss Gbace Middleton 

LITTLE ETHEL WILSON" ( three and one-half years old ) Little Freda Lcei.i.a McWilliams 

MRS. WILSON Mrs. Bernard Froehlich 



LITTLE 

LIVER PILLS 

DO NOT GRIPE OR SICKEN. 

BLACK LABEL. 



JAMES E. ADAMS, Owner and Manager of 
the Celebrated Adams' Cafe, Spring- 
field, Ohio, recommends 

DR. HARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. 

Springfield, Ohio, March l'ii, 1895. 
Gentlemen: I have taken your Little 
Liver Pills and think them the liest I have 
ever used. Have been taking them just 
before retiring at night and wake up the 
next mi uning feeling greatly refreshed. 
They are easy to take ami hear g 1 re- 
sults. Yours. 




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Geo. R. Young. 



Wm. H. Young. 



YOUNG & YOUNG, 



ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 



Rooms 25 to 29 Inclusive, 

Callahan Bank Building, DAYTON, 0. 



JOHN L. H. FRANK, 



E. & R. COLLINS, 



Millinery. 



Attorney at Law, 



No. 118 E. Third St., 



DAYTON, 0. 



A. T. WHITESIDE, 



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DAYTON, 0. 



Lewis B. Gonckel, Edw. L. Rowe, Webster W. Shdey. 



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ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 



Nos. 6 and S North Main St., 



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118 S. Main Street, 



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Mrs. 3£. S. SSoone, 
THE LEADING HAIR STORE. 

All Kinds of Fine Hiiir Goods and Hair 
Ornaments on Hand. LADIES' AND 
GENTS* WIGS A SPECIALTY. 

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Calvin D. Weight. 



Geo. W. Ozias. 



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Expecting to invest his money in business, 
EVERY YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN 

Expecting to take a business position, 
Will find the training of the 

MIAMI COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, L D. WILT, 

A great security against losses those not so trained cannot expect 
to escape from, and a great advantage in securing position, pay, 
and promotion in competing with others who have not had the ad- 
vantages THE MIAMI offers in course and wide influence. 
Rates are moderate. 

Terms of payment are easy. 

Open all summer. 



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FLASH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CHARACTERS IN "BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA," ACT IV., DAYTOMA. 

ACT IV. 

As wo pledge the health of our general, who fares as rough as we: 
What cau daunt us, what can turn us, led to death by surli as In- .' 

— Charles Kin'jsl'ij : A March. 

SYNOPSIS. 

Scene I. — " Chickamauga at Sunset" (September, 1863), where hundreds of Dayton's heroes foughl 
in defense of their country's flag. The portrayal of this sanguinary battle-field will surpass 
any similar setting ever given on the American stage. 450 soldiers will appear, introducing 
infantry and artillery battle maneuvers new to the stage.— The camp scene: songs and 
stories; moonlight; taps; on guard.— The Dayton hoys' ride from Chattanooga to Chicka- 
maugua; unusual display of exalted bravery; the hero's death; vision of mother; the un- 
finished task taken up by his brother. The attack; the battle between the North and the South. 
— Lincoln. — Emancipation.— Peace. 

DRAMATIS PERSONAE. 

MAJOR-GENERAL J. B. THOMAS Mr. Arthur L. Kikger 

PRIVATE GEORGE WILSON, Ninety-third, 0. V. I Mb. Clement A. Herchelrode 

SERGEANT DAVE WILSON, Fourth Ohio Cavalry Mr. Harvey Conover 

ADJUTANT MORTON Mr. Thomas B. Herrman 

SURGEON WEAVER Dr. Fred C. Weaver 

CAPTAIN KISSINGER Mr. Perry W. Weidneb 

SERGEANT HEMPHILL Mr. J. Howard Davies 

PRIVATE MARSHALL Mb. Frank L. Cleaver 

PRIVATE HANLEY, with songs Mr. E. W. HaNley 

PRIVATE BREENE, with songs Mr. C. L. G. Breene 

JONES, THE COOK, with songs Mr. DeCosto 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Mb. A. H. Callahan 

PICKANINNIES, UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.. .Members op the.; Militia Committee 

THE BROWN-BIERCE COMPANY, FINE ELECTROTYPERS. 




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Of the Roof-Garden, Tea-Ro om, Etc., at the 
"NEWCOMER" in their New Building, Cor . 
Third and Ludlow Sts., about the Second 
Week in June. 






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EARLY DAYTON— Mary D. Steele. Cloth Binding. 
EARLY DAYTON— Mar? D. Steele. Special Edition. 
HISTORY OF DAYTitN (1889). - Cloth Binding. 
PIONEER DAYTON"— John F. Edga r (In Press). 
DAYTON BLUE BOOK. 




VIEWS ABOUT DAYTON. 
POINTS ABOUT DAYTON. 
DAYTON DIRECTORY. 
MAPS OF DAYTON. 
1 »AYTON ILLUSTRATED. 



XDL 3B. 3Boo\\ Store, • c ° r - Mai ° a ° d F ° urth s « s - 



DAYTON LOAN EXHIBITION, 

In M. OHMER'S SONS' Store Rooms, North Main St. 



Old portraits of people who helped to make Dayton, relies of past 
customs, old china, silver, miniatures, and other curios associated with 

the early history of Dayton. Such a collection was never gathered in 
this city before. 



Go and See It. — Admission, 10 Cents. 



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FLASH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE LANDING. APRIL I, 1796. 
First Transformation in Act V., Daytonia. 

ACT V. 

SYNOPSIS. 

Fori; Allegorical Transformations:— jFtrsi, The landing, April 1, 1796. — Second, I layton in 1829, showing 
the arrival of the first canal-boat from Cincinnati, January, 1829. — Third, Dayton in 1865; bird's- 
eye view of Dayton, painted from a sketch taken at Van Ausdal's residence, Dayton View, Sep- 
tember 12. 1865. — Foiirtli, Dayton of to-day. Third ami Main streets, looking north. The Gem 
City of America, ushered in by the Daytonia Guards, composed of the following Day toniahs: 

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John 1'. Kline. 
G. W. Shroyer. 
I'i; INK I. Jo's CB. 
['. < rRANT Sain. 
William Melke. 

Wll.MKR W. McKlNNEY. 

A. W. Odell. 
Robert H. Wildasik. 

.1 LMES ( 'i u:k. 

Jacob Bernhard. 

VVlLBER HkaTIIM I N. 



John W. Marshall. 
William S. Brown. 
John C. Pattkrson. 
William H. < !olton. 
Henry J. Crutchpield. 
David C. Hale. 
Edward II. Mentel. 
Edward Merkle. 
Charles Thomas. 
1.. ( '. A dams. 
Jacob J. Si haffer. 



P.. F. Wendler. 
Clarence G. Wiggim. 
George*B. Butterworth. 
J. W. Granms. 

John ].. BUVINGER. 

Win. H. Drake. 

1 1 \ i;i:\ II. Ill-: ITIIMAN. 
I I IRRY McENHEIM I:i: 
EDW kRD ( '. Bechtold. 
A LBERT FkEDDENBEHGER. 

Charles /Seller. 

< rUSTAV A. MORHLM INN. 



The entire production under the persona] direction of 
MR. HARRY E. FEICHT, 

Assisted by Mr, John \V. Weidner, Mr. Paul Keenan, and Mr. T. N. Wilson. 
Musical Director, Mi:. J. 1!. Meiler. 
Special Scenery, painted by Mr. FRED. E K NIGHT. 
Mechanical Effects, by Mi: Cbas. A. CoMBS. 

Properties, by Mr. Harry Smith. 
Character Make-Ups, by Mi:. Paul Keenan. 

Mr. Feicht is indebted to Mrs. Eva Best for assistance in th<- first act. 

The organ used in the production of Daytonia was kindly loaned by D. II. Baldwin A Co. 

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riagnificent Trains 
of the 



"Big Four" 



to 



New York all eastern cities 
Boston 




M. E. INGALLS, 



President. 



e. o. Mccormick, 

Passenger Traffic Manager. 



D. B. MARTIN, 

General Passenger and Ticket Agt. 



Wagner 
SleepingCars, 
Parlor Cars, 
Dining Cars. 




JOHN L. HILLER, 

Traveling Passenger Agent, 
NO. 6 WEST THIRD STREET, DAYTON, OHIO. 

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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



COMMITTEES ON DAYTONIA. 



Our praises are our wanes.— Shakespeare : Winter's Tale, Act I.. Scene '-'. 



EXECUTIVE COnniTTEE. 



Director-General, 
Secretary, 
Treasurer, - 



Mr. Harry E. Fbicht. 
Mr. J. \V. Weidnbr. 

Mr. Chas. I>. Mead. 



Mr. .1. W. Stoddard, Chairman. 



Mr. Harry E. Feicht. 
.Mr. Joseph H. Crane. 
Col. Charles G. Bickham. 
Mr. Emil Reichert. 
Mr. S. W. Davies. 
Chief T. J. Farrell. 
Mr. Harvey C. Phelps. 
Mr. Edward F. Cooper. 
Ex-Mayor C. G. McMillen. 
Mr. Charles H. Simms. 
Mr. Thos. A. Selz. 
Mr. Isaac Pollack. 
Dr. J. E. Lowes. 
Judge Charles W. Dale. 



Mr. L. V. Armstrong. 
Mr. Paul Keenan. 
Mr. Charles I). Mea.l. 
Mr. A. H. Callahan. 
Mr. M. J. Schwab. 
Mr. Kufus L. Worrell. 
Mr. Ilenrv C. Lowe. 
Mr. J. W.' Stoddard. 
Mr. Chas. J. Geyer. 
Mr. J. W. Weidner. 
Mr. K. P. Burkhardt. 
Mr. Harry Weidner. 
Chief Daniel C. Larkin. 
Mr. P. A. McGowen. 



Mrs. J. B. Thresher, Chairman. 



Mas. 

Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mis. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 



E. M. Wood, Sec'y. Mrs. 

Joseph H. Crane. Mis. 

Max Wertheimer. Mrs. 

F. J. Ach. Mrs. 
Wm. Craighead. Mrs. 
Eva I '.est. ' Mrs. 
Philip J. Rotterniann. Mrs. 
C. J. Ferneding. Mrs. 
Charles 11. Ware. Mrs. 
John H. < (Inner. Mrs. 



Chas. H. Brown, Treas. 
C. E. Corpe. 

John Stengel. 

A. M. Williamson. 

J. D. Piatt. 

Francis J. McCornrck. 

Thos. A. Legler. 

Kol'i'i't C. Schenek. 

Sol. Strauss. 

H. E. Talbott. 



COMMITTEE ON LOAN EXHIBITION 

Held iu M. Ohmer'a Sons' Building During tlio Wee! o( 
Dai iosia. 



Mrs. T. J. 

Mrs. ( 'has. W. (tehii 

Mrs. Chas. 0. Raymond. 
Mrs. Win. A. Phelps. 

Mrs. J. W. Stoddard. 

Mrs. J. P. Davies. 
Mis. Max Wertheimer. 
Mrs. Chas. L. Koehnen. 
Mis. H. C. Graves. 
Mrs. Jos. Klopfer. 
Mrs. Robt. I. Cummin. 
Mis. John A. Mc.Mahon. 
Mrs. John E. Giruperling, 
Mrs. J 



Wood, Chairman. 

art, Secretary and Treasurer. 

Mis. Susan II. ( 'animaim. 
-Mrs. Job. < i. ( 'ran.v 

Mrs. Mariha 0. Hawes. 

Mrs. .John ||. ( rorman 
Mrs. II. H. Weakley. 
Miss Martha Perrine. 
Miss Mary A. Gebhart. 
.Miss Fannie Dixon. 
Miss Lizzie W. Hughes. 
Miss Jacobs. 
Miss Sophie Phillips. 
. M. Phelps. 



CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE. 
Mr. JOSEPH C. Peters. Chairman. 

Mi. Jacob Oneth. 
Mr. Holla Gallaher. 
Mr. Philip E. Gilbert. 
Messrs. Kimtz an.l Johnson. 
The John Rouzer Company. 
The F. A. Requarth Companv. 
The Mathias Planing -Mill Company. 
The Peine and Coleman Company, 



We , SOTTDERS' 10 -° ent Lemon and 15-Cent Vanilla Extracts because they are tine, rich flavors 

'■ ii™ipt,,|Wwuj/jjxuw at half the price of other brands. ' 



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AFTER ENJOYING THE PLAY 

Coine in and Enjoy Your Lunch lA/ith Us. 

We are now serving everything in a general restaurant line, in addition to all delicacies of the season, such as Frogs 
Soft-Shell Crabs, Lobsters, Game, Shell Oysters and Clams, Fish, Etc., which are cooked and served in first-class 
style. Ladies' and Gents' Dining-Room, Second Floor. 



THE KIEFABER DELICACY CO., 

24 North Main Street, Opposite Court House. 



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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 



COMMITTEES. -Continued. 



PRESS COnniTTEE 
Mr. Charles Harries Simms, Chairman. 
Mr. Charles (i. Reade, Evening News. 
Mr. Abe S. Bickham, Journal. 
Mr. Charles J. < reyer, Herald. 
Mr. I [arry 1 1. McGrew, Time*. 
Mr. Edgar A. Morgan, Press. 
Mr. Edward Neder, Vblks-Zaitung. 
Mr. John I!. Tomlinson, Journal. 
Mr. T. J. Wilson, Evening News. 
Mr. Edward B. Grimes, Herald. 
Mr. Daniel E. Kumler, Timet. 
Col. Charles • i. Bickham, Journal. 
Mr. Junia D. Tart, fl"<?raZd. 
Mr. Emil Reichert, Volks-Zeitung. 
Mr. Harvey ('. Phelps, Sunday World. 
Mr. J, B. Siilers, Evening Nevus. 
Mr. E. I'>. Brandenburg, Journal. 
Mr. A. F. Thiele, Eirnimj News. 
Mr. L. V. Armstrong, Press. 
Mr. .1. C. Ochiltree, Pr«B. 

TICKET COnniTTEE. 



Judge Charles 

Mr. John A. Mctiee. 
Mr. Charles F. Knecht. 
Mr. Joseph Schwab. 
Mr. John H. Swill. 
Mr. James A. Smith. 
Mr. Albert L. Makley. 
Mr. Will H. Tomlinson. 
Mr. Gabriel I. Pollack. 
Mr. Wm. R. Sullivan. 



W. Dale, Cliairmnn. 
Mr. Louis A. Pauley. 
Mr. W. H. Shoemaker. 
Mr. Wood Patton. 
Mr. Chas. W. Bieser. 
Mr. W. E. Donson. 
Mr. George T. Wilson. 
Mr. (ieo. W. Martin. 
Mr. Edwin ('. Baird. 
Mr. Albert J. I>\\ ver. 



Mr. Edward G. Pease. 

MILITARY COMMITTEE. 

( 'aptain .1. A. Miller and ( lompany < r, O. X. < i. 

( 'aptain 15. F. Boyer and Company I, O. N.G. 

('aptain Mont. H. Bennett and Company of Earnshaw 

Rifles. 
Captain John P. O'Counell and Hibernian Kifles. 
Captain J. Philip Marqnardt anil fifty members of Old 

Guard Post. 
Captain John C. Klin^es and_ Commamlerv No. ll."> 

Knights of St. John. 

Dai/toii!a Guards. 
Captain John W. Marshall ami < lompany Q of the Blues. 
Captain B. F. Wendler and Company E of the Yellows. 
Captain John P. Kline ami Company M of the Reds. 



FINANCE COnniTTEE. 

Mi:. Wm II. Simms, Chairman 



CAVALRY COnniTTEE. 

Mu. Joseph W. Mi: mi, Chairm 



Mr. Win. II. McWillia.ns. 
Mr. John I). Geisler, 

Mr. Win. II. Crnine. 

Mr. Harry E, Randall. 



Chief T. J. Farrell. 
Major ('.<.. McMillen. 

Mr. Merrick I'. Md rOWen. 
Mr. J. Mcl.ain Smith, Jr. 



Dr. Fred C. Weaver. 



PICNIC COnniTTEE. 

Mrs. William Craighead. Mis. Joseph II. Crane. 
Mrs. W. F. Gebhart. Mrs. John I.. Brenner. 

Miss Maml Reber. 
Mr. Charles M. Wood. Mr. B. J'.. Thresher. 

Mr. II. C. Graves, Jr. 



FLOWER AND REFRESHHENT COHHITTEE. 

Mis. S. II. Carr. Mrs. Herman II. Kilter. 

Mrs. A. M. Williamson. Mrs. John Stengel. 

Mrs. (i. I'.. Brown. Mrs. Philip J. Rottermann. 



HAY-POLE COnniTTEE. 

Mrs. J. D. Piatt. Mrs. Robert C. Schenck. 

VIRGINIA REEL COnniTTEE. 

Mrs. F. J. Ach. Miss Henrietta Ach, 

ADVERTISING COHHITTEE. 

Mr. Moses Wolf, Chairman. 
Mr. O. C. Schenck. Mr. Adam Breene. 

HORSE COnniTTEE. 

Mr. P. A. McGowen, Chairman. 
Chief Daniel C. Larkin. Chief T. J. Farrel 



Mr. Maurice Costello. 



Mr. Thos. Collins. 



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when you make cakes or pastry, try SOUDERS' 10-cent Lemon and 15-cent Vanilla. 
They are high grade goods at low prices. 




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High Standard Liquid Paint, 



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or any Paint made. 



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DAYTON, OHIO. 






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EARLY DAYTON 



TS not a collection of reminiscences, but a well arranged and carefully written 
history of the city, from the social and personal standpoint. Its state- 
ments have heen carefully verified, and the facte given have the best of 
authority. While it enlarges upon 
the pioneer period, previous to 1840, 
it gives a well arranged history of the 
city to the present time. 

The illustrations surpass anything 
e\er before shown in our local history. 

They include plans of the early city, 
the landing of the first settlers, the 
early log cabins, the streets at various 
times, prominent men and women of 
the city's early history, and fine views 
of modern Dayton. These alone would 
commend the book as one of per- 
manent interest, as many of them 
have never before heen published 
and cannot be found in any other 
form. 




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GENKKAI. JONATHAN DAYTON. 



PUBLISHED^BY*U. B. PUBLISHING HOUSE. 



SEE PAGE 28. 



THE CRAWFORD McGREGOR * CANBY CO., 



MANDTACTCKER9 OF 



LASTS. 



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ESTAKLISHRD 1829. 



Incorporated 1896. 



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